128.16.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
128.16.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
128.16.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
128.16.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
129.4.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
129.4.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
129.4.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
129.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.55
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enshrine the right to education in its Constitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Constitutionally guarantee the right to education of children and adolescents
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.50
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the law repressing homosexuality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.48
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between people of the same sex and act to stop the discrimination suffered by people because of their sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.47
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- 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
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize consensual, same-sex sexual acts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Outlaw corporal punishment in all settings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Explicitly prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings, including in the home, schools and penal institutions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- 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
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact specific legislation on marital rape and ensure that all violence against women and girls constitutes a criminal offence, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- 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
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- 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
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, with a view to its abolition in law and practice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- 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
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a formal moratorium on the death penalty, as a step towards complete abolition of this practice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.23
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Agree to a moratorium on the death penalty as a first step towards its ultimate abolition, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.21
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- 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
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
129.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an official moratorium on executions and abolish the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020