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Primah Kwagala
Ugandan civil and human rights lawyer
Primah Kwagala is a Ugandan civil and human rights lawyer and CEO of the Women’s Probono Initiative (WPI) in Uganda.[1][2] She has handled cases involving illegal detentions in health facilities, access to emergency obstetric care and to free vital medicines, and more.[3][4] She is the Chairperson of Female Lawyers in the Uganda Law Society.[5] Kwagala was awarded the 2020 Peace and Reconciliation Prize that was awarded by H.E Albrecht Conze, the German Ambassador in Uganda, H.E Jules-Armand ANIAMBOSSOU who is the Ambassador of France to Uganda and Henry Oryem Okello the State Minister for Foreign Affairs at the 57th Anniversary celebrations of Elysee Treaty .[6][7] On Women's Day in the year, 2022, she was named by the U. S Embassy in Uganda as one of Uganda's Outstanding women of Courage and she was awarded with EU Human Right Defenders Award 2022.[5]