Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Ensure that the proceedings of customary courts are in line with the domestic courts | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Consider intensify measures to protect the rights of ethnic minorities of the country and their self-fulfilment of their cultural specificities | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Take all appropriate measures, including adequate resource allocation, to strengthen indigenous children's equal access to education, including, when possible, education in their own language | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Adopt effective measures to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples on issues affecting them and their rights as indigenous peoples | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Ensure that tourism development in the Central Kalahari Reserve allows indigenous peoples to continue with its traditional practices, including hunting and harvesting for subsisting, as well as access to water | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Guarantee the return of the San communities to the Kalahari reserve, and facilitate their access to safe drinking water and sanitation | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Fully implement the 2006 High Court ruling and allow all San individuals who want to live on the Central Kalahari Game Reserve to do so | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Guarantee the fundamental rights of all persons living in Botswana and thereby decriminalize sexual relations of consenting adults of the same sex | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Remove relevant articles of the Penal Code criminalising same sex sexual activities | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between same-sex adults and strength efforts to combat discrimination against those persons, while respecting their rights to association and representation in civil society | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | De-criminalize same sex activities and adopt policies to counter discrimination against LGBT | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Evaluate to repeal the criminalization of same-sex relations | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Decriminalize consensual same-sex activities between adults and promote tolerance in this regard | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Ensure that all violence against women and girls constitutes a criminal offence, that victims have access to immediate means of redress and protection, and that all perpetrators are prosecuted | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Prohibit corporal punishment of children | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Continue to combat corporal punishment of children in all circumstances | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Take measures to eliminate corporal punishment that could lead to torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment for victims, mainly children | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Apply strict measures to stamp out corporal punishment in school and home settings | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Repeal the death penalty from the domestic legal order and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Establish a moratorium on the death penalty and initiate a national debate on its abolition | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Improved transparency of the clemency process in death penalty cases by making public the reasons behind decisions and providing a timetable for hearings | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Establish a moratorium on executions as a first step towards complete abolition of the death penalty and accession to the Second Optional Protocol of the ICCPR | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Consider a moratorium on the use of death penalty, and its eventual abolition | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Consider the possibility of establishing a moratorium on the carrying out of death sentences and evaluate the possibility of legally abolishing the death penalty | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Establish a moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to fully abolishing it, in line with relevant UN General Assembly resolutions | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Impose a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty entirely, in line with the UN Assembly General resolutions 62/149, 63/168 and 65/206, commuting all death sentences to life imprisonment terms | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Fully abolish the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Positively consider the establishment of a moratorium on executions | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Agree to a moratorium on the death penalty as a first step toward ultimate abolition | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 15 - January 2013 | Introduce a moratorium and seek alternatives to the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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