Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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128.16.4 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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128.16.3 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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128.16.2 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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128.16.1 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.4.3 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.4.2 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.4.1 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.35 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | While welcoming the public debates on the death sentence, Namibia encourages Botswana to consider placing a moratorium on executions, commute all death sentences to other sentences and consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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129.33 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Hold public consultations on the use of the death penalty and consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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129.22 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Establish a moratorium on the death penalty as a first step towards its full abolition and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.10 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Eliminate normative exceptions and practices contrary to the principle of non-discrimination which are not in line with international human rights treaties | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.9 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Adopt specific legislation to protect victims of violence and other human rights violations committed against persons on the basis of their real or imputed sexual orientation or gender identity, in line with resolution 275 of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.7 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.6 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and adopt a formal moratorium and commute all death sentences to prison terms | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.5 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and take the necessary measures to repeal the death penalty from its legislation | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.3 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and observe a moratorium on the death penalty in the interim | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.2 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Second Optional Protocol thereto, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Optional Protocol | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.1 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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128.75 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Amend the Citizenship Act and the citizenship regulations in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, so as to ensure every child’s right to a nationality | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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128.48 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Continue to fully implement various international human rights instruments, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, with a view to reducing gender-based violence | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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128.44 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Include provisions of international human rights treaties ratified by Botswana in national legislation, in order to ensure their applicability in courts and administrative organs | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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128.43 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Adopt laws to incorporate into its national legislation the international human rights instruments to which it is party | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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128.42 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Continue efforts to domesticate ratified human rights conventions such as the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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128.41 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ensure full incorporation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women into national legislation | 4 - General action | Noted |
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128.40 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Incorporate into domestic law those international human rights conventions that had been ratified, including the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, making them directly applicable to the courts and administrative authorities | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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128.39 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Incorporate into domestic law those international human rights conventions that Botswana has ratified, including the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, making them directly applicable to the courts and administrative authorities | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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128.38 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Accelerate ongoing efforts to domesticate the provisions of the international human rights treaties to which it is a party | 4 - General action | Supported |
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128.37 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Take the necessary steps to incorporate into domestic law those international human rights conventions that Botswana has ratified | 4 - General action | Supported |
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128.36 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Finalize domestic implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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128.32 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Recognize the competence of the Committee against Torture to receive individual communications under article 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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