Summary: The violations highlighted are those issues raised with the State by more than one international mechanism. This is done with the intention of identifying children's rights which have been repeatedly violated, as well as gaps in the issues...
Summary: Our research indicates that in Botswana, people may be sentenced to corporal punishment and life imprisonment for offences committed while under the age of18.This report was submitted ahead of the 15th Session of the Universal Periodic...
Summary: In June the Bushmen at Ranyane successfully challenged government attempts to remove them from their land at Botswana’s High Court, but a leaked report details plans to evict Ranyane residents who resist relocation, such as sealing their...
Summary: General overview of Botswana's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national law
International treaties,...
Summary: Information about institutions in Botswana that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
The Office of the Ombudsman (http://www.gov.bw/en/Ministries--Authorities/Ministries/Office-of-the-Ombudsman-of-Botswana/) was...
Summary: This report compiles all mentions of children's rights in the Concluding Observations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.Last Examined: 12-26 May 2010
The Report was presented to the African Commission by the Minister...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
[15 January 2013] - Three Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who have returned to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).
The...
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's...
Summary: Report on life imprisonment sentences for children in the Commonwealth States.In 2010 CRIN, together with other partners, launched a campaign for the prohibition of inhuman sentencing of children- defined to include sentences of death, life...
