Agather Atuhaire (born c.1988) is a Ugandan lawyer, human rights defender and freelance journalist.

Lack of money meant that she could not fulfil her ambition to take law so she studied journalism at Makerere University.

Saduk identified her recent work with the Law Development Center where she discovered that students inexplicably fail courses and there was no appeals or investigations.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and first lady Jill Biden made the award on 4 March 2024.

[4] After the IWOC ceremony the awardees are invited to take part in the State department's International Visitor Leadership Program where they meet each other and others interested in their work.