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
129.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons from discrimination by amending sections 164, 165 and 167 of the Penal Code of Botswana to decriminalize same-sex activities among consenting adults and by explicitly including sexual orientation and gender identity as listed grounds of non-discrimination in section 3 of the Constitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
128.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a comprehensive monitoring mechanism on the treatment of children, with the aim of disclosing cases of sexual abuse, mistreatment and neglect, including by introducing the possibility of taking children out of an environment which is not conducive for their development
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
127.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the Office of the Ombudsman, as a national human rights institution, is independent and adequately financed in line with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to fully abolishing it, in line with relevant UN General Assembly resolutions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take comprehensive action in order to achieve full equality for women, and to especially repeal section 15(4) of the Constitution and to review customary law in order to eliminate discriminatory elements such as an inheritance rule providing for male-only inheritance of the family home
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Germany wished to repeat its recommendation from the first cycle of the UPR, to amend the definition of discrimination in the Constitution in such a way that it covers discrimination based on descent, and abolish those laws that permit discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, language and culture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol, and opt-in to the enquiry and inter-state mechanisms
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the definition of discrimination in the Constitution in such a way that it covers discrimination based on descent and abolish those laws that permit discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, language and culture.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
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