Botswana�s human rights under scrutiny

Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Despite its revered image, Botswana still has a barrage of human rights issues that the local civil society would want the United Nations (UN) community to bring to the attention of the government of Botswana at a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session in Geneva, beginning of 2018.

The UPR is a five-year cycle appraisal process, in which selected countries face scrutiny from their peers on various issues of human rights obligations and commitments.

Botswana has been under the scalpel twice, in 2008 and 2013, in which the country was served with recommendations to account to universal expectations.

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Botswana�s human rights under scrutiny

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