Law for Pacific women : a legal rights handbook / P. Imrana Jalal.

Suva, Fiji : Fiji Women's Rights Movement, 1998.

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Women -- Oceania -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Women's rights -- Oceania.

1. The law and the women's lives

2. Constitutional status, citizenship and customary law

3. Land rights

4. Sexual offences against women and children

5. Criminal assault against women in the home

6. Women as criminal defendants

7. Marriage and separation

8. Divorce

9. Custody, access and guardianship of children

10. Maintenance for married women and legitimate children

11. Matrimonial property

12. De facto relationships, affiliation and natural children

13. Women and work

14. Women lawyers and legal aid for women

15. Strategies for change.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

South Pacific collection.

xxi, 674 p. : ill. ; 30 cm