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Consider developing, in consultation with Parliament and civil society, a policy framework to guide practices and procedures concerning international treaty processes that creates rights and obligations under international law

Adopt a national action plan on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000)

Take all appropriate measures to ensure children’s equal access to quality education, including, when possible, education in their own language

Adopt measures based on the principle of gender equality that protect women’s rights and safety and punish any discriminatory or harmful practice against them

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

Include provisions of international human rights treaties ratified by Botswana in national legislation, in order to ensure their applicability in courts and administrative organs

Further consolidate its social and human rights policies, particularly in the area of economic, social and cultural rights, in order to improve the quality of life, particularly of the most vulnerable groups of its population

Ratify, without reservation, the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Ratify the international human rights treaties, particularly the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Take concrete measures to speed up the process of ratification of the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Continue considering acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Ratify the Second Optional Protocol of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights

Proceed with the abolition of the death penalty by ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty from its legislation definitively and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Make the National Human Rights Commission fully operational and provide it with sufficient financial and human resources, in line with the Paris Principles

Continue to provide sufficient resources to the National Human Rights Commission to enable it carry out its mandate

Accelerate the operationalization of the National Human Rights Commission

Adopt legal and political measures to combat human trafficking, in particular in refugee women and girls

Investigate all allegations of human rights abuses by self- defence groups and bring suspected perpetrators to justice

Pursue steps to expand access of the population to high-quality health-care and education services

Consider allocating adequate financial resources to improve health-care infrastructure, midwife training, maternal health and access to emergency obstetric care

Adopt legal and political measures to ensure that women and adolescents have access to sexual education and to free and women- and adolescent-friendly reproductive health-care services

Proceed with the implementation of the national social security scheme with a view to providing health services to all without discrimination

Enhance measures to guarantee the furthering of judicial investigations and sanctioning the perpetrators of all human rights violations

Adopt the measures necessary to strengthen investigations and sanctions against the perpetrators of child marriage and female genital mutilation

Bolster mechanisms to prevent human rights violations by security forces

Continue efforts to educate and raise public awareness in the field of human rights

Strengthen and expand its human rights education and awareness-raising activities