141.86.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to promote education and training on human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
141.66.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a national human rights institution, in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
106.11.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
105.7.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the Protector for Human Rights and Freedoms in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- May 1, 2020
105.10.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up processes to establish a national monitoring mechanism and the OHCHR database
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- UPR process
- Date added
- May 1, 2020
141.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts towards meeting the goal of improving housing conditions for those most in need
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to housing
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.71
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure thorough, prompt and independent investigations into all reports of human rights violations against human rights defenders and journalists and bring to justice those suspected of committing such crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
113.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Complete efforts in order to effectively protect children from violence and abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.69
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote more tolerance towards persons belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts for the creation of an independent institution for the protection of the rights of children and youth
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
105.107
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its significant efforts in the promotion of gender equality and take further steps in creating an enabling environment for women’s participation in all spheres of life
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
105.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all reported threats and attacks against journalists and media workers, as well as non-governmental organizations and human rights defenders, are investigated thoroughly, impartially and independently
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
106.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce into its criminal legislation an aggravating circumstance for racially motivated crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
118.106
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue their laudable efforts in promoting gender-based equality, including women’s participation in public and private life and combating gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
118.100
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue ensuring that human rights defenders are able to accomplish their legitimate work in a secure and free environment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
118.65
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to safeguard lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights, following notable legislative administrative developments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
145.228
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the recommendations of the Defender of Rights on the introduction of a clear and precise definition of sexual harassment into the draft law on equality and citizenship
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
145.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Withdraw the declaration relating to article 13 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
137.153
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee fully freedom of expression and the press, and freedom of assembly and association, in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
137.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a special tribunal, as provided for in the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement, or another similar and appropriate judicial instrument
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
137.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate, prosecute lawfully and, if they are convicted, adequately punish those guilty of human rights violations, including those committed against human rights defenders, members of civil society and the press, as well as against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
137.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve its cooperation with United Nations mechanisms, in particular by implementing Security Council resolution 2303 (2016), by resuming cooperation with OHCHR, cooperating with the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi and reconsidering its decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
128.39
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
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
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
127.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Complete its efforts to establish a national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
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