Law must deal with prisons' sex - BONELA
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Legal Officer at BONELA, Uyapo Ndadi, said this at a three day workshop held in Francistown at Tati River Lodge yesterday.
The reproductive issue was just one of the advocacy issues by BONELA that was tackled at the workshop. Ndadi says that women living with HIV have been publicly blamed several times by authority figures for getting pregnant while their male partners were left alone."We say they have a right to found families or procreate, but the government says that the right should be extended to them," he said. Ndadi says that the government should not be against women living with HIV conceiving as long as they understand their status.
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...