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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129.16.2 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Abolish the death penalty | 4 - General action | Noted |
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129.16.1 | May 18, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Abolish the death penalty | 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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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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129.55 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Enshrine the right to education in its Constitution | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.54 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Constitutionally guarantee the right to education of children and adolescents | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.53 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Widen the scope of poverty eradication programmes and increase the budget assigned to them | 4 - General action | Noted |
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129.52 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Provide sustainable solutions to alleviate poverty and reduce high unemployment rates (20 per cent of the total of those able to work) | 4 - General action | Noted |
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129.51 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Build upon recent court decisions upholding the human rights of transgender persons and take action to decriminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex status or conduct | 4 - General action | Noted |
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129.50 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Repeal the law repressing homosexuality | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.49 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Analyse modifying the legislation that criminalizes sexual relations between adults of the same gender in order to guarantee the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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129.48 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between people of the same sex and act to stop the discrimination suffered by people because of their sexual orientation | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.47 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Repeal laws that criminalize consensual, same-sex conduct between adults and ensure all legislation, policies and programmes do not discriminate on the bases of sexual orientation or gender identity | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.46 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Decriminalize same-sex sexual activities and ensure non- discrimination in accordance with Botswana’s domestic and international human rights obligations | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.45 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Decriminalize consensual, same-sex sexual acts | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.44 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Take legislative measures to prohibit all forms of corporal punishment against children and to conduct awareness-raising campaigns to ensure that non-violent forms of discipline are administered in a manner consistent with the child’s dignity | 4 - General action | Noted |
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129.43 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Outlaw corporal punishment in all settings | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.42 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Explicitly prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings, including in the home, schools and penal institutions | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.41 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Abolish the practice of corporal punishment by introducing appropriate changes to legislation | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.40 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Enact specific legislation on marital rape and ensure that all violence against women and girls constitutes a criminal offence, as previously recommended | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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129.39 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Take urgent steps to address gender-based violence, including the creation of an act that makes marital rape illegal in Botswana | 4 - General action | Noted |
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129.38 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Take measures to eliminate all forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including through criminalizing marital rape, investigating and prosecuting all acts of sexual violence and providing training to law enforcement officials on sexual and gender-based violence | 4 - General action | Noted |
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129.37 | Mar 2, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 29 - January 2018< | Abolish the death penalty definitively, hold a public debate to that end, and, in the meantime, humanize the process to mitigate the suffering of the persons sentenced and their families | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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