Botswana celebrates strides made in Children Rights Convention

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The international community will on November 20 celebrate the adoption of the ‘Convention On The Rights of the Child (CRC)’. It’s been 25 years since the convention was established.

Botswana is among the few countries that have made efforts to ratify and domesticate the convention through the enactment of the Children’s Act in 2009. 

During a stakeholders’ consultative meeting yesterday, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Country Representative, Vidhya Ganesh, said despite slow implementation of the Children’s Act, Botswana had made progress since the CRC adoption. 

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