# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/annie-ruth-jiagge
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:00:06.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/annie-ruth-jiagge"
name: "Annie Ruth Jiagge"
slug: "annie-ruth-jiagge"
description: "Annie Ruth Jiagge, , also known as Annie Baëta Jiagge, was a Ghanaian lawyer, judge and women's rights activist. She was the first woman in Ghana and the Commonwealth of Nations to become a judge. She was a principal drafter of the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and a co-founder of the organisation that became Women's World Banking."
tagline: "Ghanaian jurist and women's rights activist (1918-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/100elles_20191214_Rue_Verdaine_-_Rue_Annie_Jiagge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1918-10-07"
deathDate: "1996-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.67235466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AC"
    title: "آني جياج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آنى جياج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Annie Ruth Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fat.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Ruth_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Ruth Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Annie Jiagge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Annie_Jiagge"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21248160"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump