Marriage dowry system under court scrutiny

New Vision reports that a panel of seven justices deferred the matter to its 'next convenient session'. The report notes this follows a 2010 Constitutional Court decision that upheld the payment of a dowry. According to the report, activists under lobby group Mifumi had argued that the practice was connected to domestic violence and its abolition would protect women 'from being turned into property'. However, states the report, the court dismissed this. Full New Vision report