Primah Kwagala

Primah Kwagala (born 14, October 1987)is a Ugandan civil and human rights lawyer and CEO of the Women’s Probono Initiative (WPI) in Uganda. She has handled cases involving illegal detentions in health facilities, access to emergency obstetric care and to free vital medicines, and more. She is the Chairperson of Female Lawyers in the Uganda Law Society. 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. 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.

She finished her primary education at St.Patrick Kigulu Girls' School, Iganga, joined Iganga Secondary school for O-level and later joined Maryhill High School Mbarara for her A-level. She earned her first degree in 2010 from Makerere University, has a degree in Ethics and Human Rights as well as a Diploma pursued at the Law Development Center. Kwagala graduated with a Master's degree in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Africa and a PhD in Gender Studies at Makerere University. In 2014 and 2018, Kwagala was honored as an outstanding Health and Human Rights Lawyer. In 2012, she was the Advocacy Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University.

Achievements Through her organization, Kwagala has returned several Ugandan women trafficked in the Middle East. She was awarded the Peace and Reconciliation award from the French and German embassies and also nominated in the EU Human Rights Defenders Award.

Personal life Kwagala loves reading. She is not married although has children, she adopted