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BOTSWANA: Persistent violations of children's rights
The violations highlighted are those issues raised with the State by more than one international mechanism. This is done with the intention of identifying children's rights which have been repeatedly violated, as well as gaps in the issues covered by NGOs in their alternative reports to the various human rights monitoring bodies. These violations are listed in no particular order.
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30/10/2013 |
Child Rights International Network
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BOTSWANA: Plans to evict Bushmen revealed by leaked report
In June the Bushmen at Ranyane successfully challenged government attempts to remove them from their land at Botswana’s High Court, but a leaked report details plans to evict Ranyane residents who resist relocation, such as sealing their borehole.
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15/08/2013 |
Survival International
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BOTSWANA: Children's Ombudsperson
Information about institutions in Botswana that monitor children's rights.
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02/08/2013 |
Child Rights International Network
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BOTSWANA: National Laws
General overview of Botswana's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.
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02/08/2013 |
Child Rights International Network
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BOTSWANA: Children's Rights in the UN Special Procedures' Reports
This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which are available as separate reports.
Please note that the language may have been edited in places for the purpose of clarity
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02/04/2013 |
Child Rights International Network
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BOTSWANA: Bushman children arrested under renewed government repression
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30/01/2013 |
Survival International
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BOTSWANA: Children's Rights References in the Universal Periodic Review (Second Cycle)
A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's Information'. Also included is the final report and the list of accepted and rejected recommendations.
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18/12/2012 |
Child Rights International Network
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BOTSWANA: High Court rules women allowed to inherit
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12/10/2012 |
BBC
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BOTSWANA: Child sexual abuse reaches crisis level
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28/09/2012 |
The Monitor
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BOTSWANA: UPR Submission on Inhuman Sentencing
Our research indicates that in Botswana, people may be sentenced to corporal punishment and life imprisonment for offences committed while under the age of18.
This report was submitted ahead of the 15th Session of the Universal Periodic Review as part of our campaign against inhuman sentencing of children - defined to include sentences of death, life imprisonment and corporal punishment.
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03/08/2012 |
Child Rights International Network
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INHUMAN SENTENCING: Life imprisonment of children in the Commonwealth
Report on life imprisonment sentences for children in the Commonwealth States.
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01/08/2012 |
Child Rights International Network
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INHUMAN SENTENCING: Death Sentences and Executions in 2011
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31/05/2012 |
Amnesty International
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: The State of the World's Human Rights 2012
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24/05/2012 |
Amnesty International
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BOTSWANA: Children's Rights in UN Treaty Body Reports
This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are available here: http://www.crin.org/resources/treaties/index.asp
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04/04/2012 |
Child Rights International Network
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Inhuman Sentencing: Life Imprisonment
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07/03/2012 |
Child Rights International Network
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CRC: Optional Protocol on a complaints mechanism opening for signature at the end of February
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10/02/2012 |
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Violence against Children
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: World Report 2012
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23/01/2012 |
Human Rights Watch
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BOTSWANA: Borehole breakthrough for bushmen
Bushmen have access to drinking water for first time in nine years.
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20/09/2011 |
Survival International
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BOTSWANA: Youth dies after flogging
A 15-year-old schoolboy has died in Botswana from injuries caused by flogging - a sentence handed down by village elders.
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24/08/2011 |
The Monitor
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Annual Report 2011
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13/05/2011 |
Amnesty International
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