Yasmin Sooka joined the Foundation for Human Rights in 2001 and serves as its executive director. She practiced as a human rights lawyer during the apartheid era. In 1995, she was appointed as a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was responsible for the final report. From 1998-2001, she was also an acting judge of the Witwatersrand High Court. Ms. Sooka is widely regarded as an expert on transitional justice and has been a consultant to a number of governments, commissions and civil society organizations. She was appointed by the United Nations to the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission.