Botswana moves to register, monitor sexual offenders

Yandani Boko
Yandani Boko

The proposed Sexual Offenders Registry Bill if signed into law will help track and register sexual offenders who have been convicted in and outside the country.

The drafted Bill’s main objective is to come up the sexual offenders registry Act that will in the long run provide registration of sexual offenders, monitoring and matters concerning registered offenders, among other factors.

The Bill came into effect following the seating of the winter Parliament where a concern was raised about high numbers of Gender-Based Violence incidents in the country.

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