An op/ed available at AllAfrica.com highlights the urgent need to address gendered issues in resettlement and post-conflict development planning in northern Uganda. Prevalent social disruption and human rights abuses in IDP camps have had an especially brutal effect on women, causing elevated levels of sexual and gender based violence (rape, defilement, physical beating, etc), girl dropouts from school, adolescent and unwanted pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS. And in a post-conflict northern Uganda, women's equitable access to land, international aid, and political power will be crucial to the development of a sustainable peace in the region.