 In 2011, she received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.In 2015, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award.Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera was born in Kampala, Uganda, to Prince Albert Walugembe Musoke, who was an economist and officer of the Bank of Uganda and who later served as a Bank Vice President, and her mother, Julie Viola Katantazi Musoke was an among the first computer programmers in Uganda and also worked at Bank of Uganda where she trained other banking personnel throughout the country.