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    <title>Women &amp; Law in West Africa : situational analysis of some key issues affecting women</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kuenyehia, Akua.</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Women &amp; Law in West Africa (Research Project : Ghana)</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>University of Ghana</namePart>
    <namePart>Human Rights Study Centre.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Legon [Ghana]</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Women and Law in West Africa</publisher>
    <publisher>Human Rights Study Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Ghana</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1998</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>xx, 311 p. ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Introduction -- Family Law: Family Law in the Gambia -- Family Law in Ghana and its implication for women -- Family Law in Sierra Leone -- Family Law in Northern Nigeria -- Inheritance: Inheritance in the Gambia -- Women and inheritance in the Gambia -- Women inheritance in Ghana -- Inheritance in Sierra Leone -- Inheritance &amp; administration of estates in Northern Nigeria -- Access to land: Women, land tenure and land rights in Gambia -- Women and land rights in Ghana -- Women and land law in Sierra Leone -- Land and Property rights of women in the Northern state -- Violence against women: Violence against women in the Gambia -- Violence against women in Ghana -- Violence against women in Eastern Nigeria.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Akua Kuenyehia.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Women</topic>
    <topic>Legal status, laws, etc</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, West</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KQC145.W64</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="21">346.6601/34</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9988787405</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">99502346</identifier>
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