An influential lawyer, judge, and women’s rights activist, from Ghana, who served her generation through over half a century of dedicated public service. Mrs. Jiagge is remembered at the United Nations for the significant role she played in advancing the rights, status and role of women over a period of three decades from 1962 to 1996. As a leading member of the bar in Ghana, she was selected in 1962 to serve on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and later elected as Rapporteur of the Commission in 1966 and became its President in 1968. For a decade, she was a driving force on the Commission employing her vision of full equal rights for all women globally in the shaping of the draft Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Dr Michael Addaney is a lecturer at the Department of Planning and Sustainability of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana.