Browsing: Agather Atuhaire

Activists have been sending messages of support to one of their own after she was thrown out of a house she has been calling home in Kisaasi in Kampala. The activist has been famous for fearlessly exposing governance and accountability issues in Uganda’s Parliament, one of the third arms of government superintended over by Speaker Anita Annet Among.

A fearless female Ugandan journalist and lawyer, who is famous for exposing the excesses of the Ugandan Parliament and its Speaker Anita Annet Among, has been named the winner of the EU Human Rights Defenders (EUHRD) Award 2023. Agather Atuhaire was awarded for her “courageous efforts to shine a light on corruption and mismanagement in public life in Uganda,” according to EU in Uganda.