LAWS are a reflection of prevailing attitudes in any society. Thus it is essential to review them to determine whether they still reflect current attitudes or have fallen far behind changing trends.
The exercise is particularly necessary in relation to the legal status of women in terms of nationality, inheritance, ownership and costs of property, freedom of movement and custody and nationality of children. Those that still discriminate against women have to be amended.
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