129.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
127.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify those international instruments that Botswana had committed to ratifying during the second cycle of the universal periodic review
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- UPR process
127.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures, as a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking and sexual exploitation of children, to address and investigate such crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
127.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take further steps to ensure the right to health, particularly by combating the scourge of HIV/AIDS
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
127.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue working on poverty eradication initiatives with special focus on women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
129.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Prohibit discrimination towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community, at the same time ensuring the full respect of everyone’s human rights, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
128.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure that indigenous peoples receive proper access to public services and water, and repeal the hunting ban, as recommended by the United Nations Special Rapporteur
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Right to water and sanitation
- Special procedures
128.51
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure that all journalists can report freely on government activities without threat or harassment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
129.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Give due consideration to the legal abolition of the death penalty and to the commutation of all death sentences to terms of imprisonment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Detention
129.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Repeal the death penalty and consider a moratorium pending its complete abolition
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
129.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Establish and implement a moratorium on executions as a first step towards the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
128.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Enlarge the space for participation of civil society for more democratic governance and social inclusion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
129.21
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on the application of the death penalty, with a view to holding informed debates about its full abolition
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
129.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on executions, with a view to fully abolishing the death penalty, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- UPR process
129.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consider a moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to its legal and practical elimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
128.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Amend the 2009 Children’s Act to include the definition of child trafficking and to criminalize the worst forms of child labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
129.39
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take urgent steps to address gender-based violence, including the creation of an act that makes marital rape illegal in Botswana
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
129.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Decriminalize same-sex sexual activities and ensure non- discrimination in accordance with Botswana’s domestic and international human rights obligations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
129.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Abolish the practice of corporal punishment by introducing appropriate changes to legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
129.55
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Enshrine the right to education in its Constitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
129.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure education and equal rights for all citizens in its Constitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
129.51
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
128.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
129.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to harmonize laws and review the dual system between customary law and common law in order to remove contradictions and inconsistencies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
129.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
128.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
128.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
129.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
127.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consider the creation of a national follow-up mechanism for recommendations on human rights issues, which would allow for the adequate follow-up of the obligations and recommendations made by regional and universal human rights systems
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- UPR process
127.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accelerate the establishment of a national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution