Botswana

June 11, 2019

Botswana: High Court Strikes Down Sodomy Laws

The High Court in Botswana ruled on June 11, 2019 that laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relations were unconstitutional, Human Rights Watch said today.

LGBT Rights

June 11, 2019 News Release

Botswana: High Court Strikes Down Sodomy Laws
LGBT Rights

January 24, 2018 Commentary

For LGBT Rights, 2018 Will Be the Year of the Courts

Neela Ghoshal
Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: The Advocate
LGBT Rights

October 3, 2017 Dispatches

Victory for Gender Identity in Botswana

Graeme Reid
Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Reports More Reports

December 1, 2003

Policy Paralysis

A Call for Action on HIV/AIDS-Related Human Rights Abuses Against Women and Girls in Africa
May 13, 2003

More Than a Name:

State-Sponsored Homophobia and its Consequences in Southern Africa
September 1, 1994

Second Class Citizens

Discrimination Against Women Under Botswana’s Citizenship Act

News

June 29, 2017 UPR

Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Botswana
February 1, 2017 Dispatches

AU's 'ICC Withdrawal Strategy' Less than Meets the Eye

Elise Keppler
Associate Director, International Justice Program
November 2, 2016 Commentary

Africans Speak Out Against ICC Withdrawal

Sarah Rayzl Lansky
Senior Associate, International Justice Program
July 20, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Governments Defend ICC at African Union Summit

Elise Keppler
Associate Director, International Justice Program
August 5, 2015 Commentary

Africa Rulings Move LGBT Rights Forward

Graeme Reid
Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: Jurist
November 14, 2014 News Release

Botswana: High Court Upholds Basic Freedoms
November 13, 2014 Dispatches

Dispatches: Judgment Day Looms for Botswana LGBT Group

Monica Tabengwa
Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
March 29, 2011 News Release

SADC: Press Mugabe to End Crackdown
August 31, 2009 News Release

SADC: Press Zimbabwe to Implement Rights Reforms
August 18, 2009 Commentary

AU Should Stand with Victims, Not Abusers

Param-Preet Singh
Associate Director, International Justice Program

Published In: The New African
July 30, 2009 Statement

African Civil Society Urges African States Parties to the Rome Statute to Reaffirm Their Commitment to the ICC
August 18, 2008 Commentary

The costs of marital rape in Southern Africa

Nada Ali

Published In: The Independent (UK)

Daily Brief

December 6, 2019

Election extortion in Burundi; India reacts to police killing of rape suspects; Myanmar to go before the International Court of Justice over its treatment of Rohingya; Kyrgyzstan's authorities charge a blogger for his controversial posts; more indigenous Papuans arrested in Indonesia; increasing fear of biometric databases in China; UN to focus on abuses in North Korea; and shining a light on the Swedish government's failure to bring Swedish children home from Syria.