Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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127.54 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Further improve the health-care infrastructure in Botswana and pay special attention to awareness-raising programmes among women and adolescent girls in rural areas for addressing the challenge of HIV/AIDS | 4 - General action | Supported |
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127.56 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Strengthen the policies to combat HIV/AIDS | 4 - General action | Supported |
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127.68 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Continue efforts to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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127.58 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Take further steps to ensure the right to health, particularly by combating the scourge of HIV/AIDS | 4 - General action | Supported |
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128.21 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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127.70 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Pursue the implementation of plans and strategies to promote the rights of the child | 4 - General action | Supported |
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127.71 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Continue conducting the situational analysis of the National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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128.23 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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127.73 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Implement gender equality policies that foster girls’ access to health and education and raise awareness among the population about sexual and gender-based violence | 5 - Specific 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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128.37 | 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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128.38 | 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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128.39 | 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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128.28 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Issue an open standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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128.29 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Issue a standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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128.30 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Issue a standing invitation to the special procedure mandate holders | 5 - Specific 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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128.32 | 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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129.31 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Consider a moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to its legal and practical elimination | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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129.21 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Establish a moratorium on the application of the death penalty, with a view to holding informed debates about its full abolition | 5 - Specific 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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129.23 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Agree to a moratorium on the death penalty as a first step towards its ultimate abolition, as previously recommended | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.24 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Impose a country-wide moratorium on the death penalty that immediately halts all sentences and executions, with a view toward complete abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.25 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Consider implementing a moratorium on the death penalty | 3 - Considering 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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129.57 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Ensure education and equal rights for all citizens in its Constitution | 4 - General action | Noted |
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129.58 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Lift its reservations on the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, with a view to amending the policy of holding asylum seekers and refugees in camps and to providing them with work permits and decent job opportunities | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 3 - December 2008 | Adhere to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 3 - December 2008 | Create a national commission of human rights and freedoms. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 3 - December 2008 | Finalize various outstanding treaty reports, particularly to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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