Legislation on marital rape and equality in the family could save the lives of countless women and girls, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the speaker of Uganda's Parliament. The Domestic Relations Bill, which has languished in parliament for more than a decade, would afford women and girls greater equality in matters relating to marriage, divorce and family property. It would also make marital rape illegal. Scheduled for debate in May, it was delayed once again after President Yoweri Museveni said the bill was "not urgently needed," and after members of parliament asked for more time for consultation. Debate is now anticipated in June.

This toolkit aims to inform the strategic engagement of women in national peacebuilding and security processes. Through bridging the gap between the reality of peace activists and policy makers, it provides critical information and approaches to women's contribution to peace and security processes. Within this context, it can be used as a reference guide, for advocacy, training and awareness raising purposes. It includes sections on: a conceptual framework addressing security, peace, accountability and rights;
conflict prevention, resolution and reconstruction; security issues; justice, governance and civil society; and, protecting vulnerable groups.

How is education faring in Africa five years after the World Education Forum? This is the question posed at a regional conference organized by UNESCO Dakar from June 13-15 in Dakar, Senegal. The Conference is expected to: Review and analyse the state of the art of educational development in Africa; Highlight and discuss policies, practices and interventions that work, analyse factors behind them; Identify the nature of problems and constraints hindering the Education for All process and propose ways and means of moving the process forward; and Define concrete proposals on how to move the EFA process forward.

The prologue was a violent outburst of tempers on a stage occupied by armed men against calm students. In the tragic melodrama of the insurrection and anti-riot, the students and the troops portrayed violence apparently prompted by the Governor of the Southwest Province, Thomas Ejake Mbonda's instructions. The real drama began when the Governor arrived on University Street in the morning of Monday 24, where students had assembled to further search for a solution to their problem, for, previously, the usual imperial solution to insoluble problems of appointing a commission to report, and the report noted and filed for life did not seem to work.