Botswana�s human rights under scrutiny

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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Closure as pain lingers

March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...

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