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Botswana: Botswana Pushes to Legalise Prostitution

8th November 2011
GABORONE — For 15 years Thato Serite has made her living as a prostitute along Botswana's busiest highway, hired by truckers plying the main route to South Africa.
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Botswana: Mogae Would not Stick His Neck out for Gays

14th March 2011
Former Botswana president Festus Mogae has admitted that while in office he put his political career ahead of gay rights.
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Botswana: Better They Die of AIDS Than Cost Us - GUS

26th July 2011
Assistant Minister of Health Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri (GUS) has defended government's stance not to provide foreign inmates with Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs because it is costly to do so.
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Botswana: Coalition hosts Zimbabwe Week

9th June 2011
The event ends tomorrow, two days before the start of the SADC Summit in South Africa. The discussions at the Boipuso meeting are meant to update the public on the situation in Zimbabwe, the constitutional review process, electoral reform, national healing and reconciliation.
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Botswana: We won't quit ICC yet

25th January 2011
Kenyan Trade Minister Ali Mwakwere's visit to Botswana was aimed at lobbying the country to support a Kenyan motion urging African countries to quit the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the next African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Botswana: Bots gays go to court

28th February 2011
By The Southern Times Gaborone - Gays in Botswana have gone to court to challenge the legality of Se....
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Botswana: Legalise sex work - BONELA

18th January 2011
The Botswana Network on Ethics Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) has called for the decriminalisation of sex work because its practice underground exacerbates the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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Botswana: Botswana court rules against Bushmen in water case

22nd July 2010
A Botswana court on Wednesday ruled against a group of Bushmen who sought to re-open a crucial water well that supplied their village in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
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Botswana: Water ruling a victory for deprived people

4th February 2011
In recent years courts in Southern Africa have avoided referring to progressive international laws and treaties in judgments.
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Press Release: Botswana Defies African Commission Ruling

16th August 2010
Statements by Botswana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs indicating that Botswana will not comply with a recent ruling by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights imperils Botswana’s standing as a model of good governance in the region says the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC). The African Commission’s recent ruling recommends that Botswana pay Professor Kenneth Good compensation for the loss incurred as a result of the unfair termination of his employment and his unlawful expulsion. It also urged Botswana to ensure that its immigration laws conform to international human rights standards.
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Botswana: Botswana mulls legalising prostitution to fight HIV

1st December 2010
Some politicians have called for Botswana to consider legalising prostitution to fight against HIV.
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BOTSWANA: HIV treatment for refugees, but for how long?

7th July 2010
JOHANNESBURG, 7 July 2010 (PlusNews) - Until just over a year ago, people living in Dukwi, a remote refugee camp about 200km from Francistown, Botswana's second city, were burying other residents who had died from AIDS-related illnesses at the rate of about five a month.
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Botswana: Constitutionality of Botswana's Media Practitioner's Act

23rd November 2010
SALC is supporting a challenge to the constitutionality of Botswana’s Media Practitioner&....
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Botswana: Country Reprimanded for Denying Critic Access to Court

12th August 2010
Johannesburg — IN A scathing rebuke of Botswana's immigration laws, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has found that national security is not a legitimate justification for infringing on the right of access to courts.
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Botswana: Condoms in prison debate rages

5th October 2010
The issue of whether to distribute condoms in prisons is a hot potato that has pitted the government against AIDS organisations.
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Botswana: BONELA shocked at Merafhe's condom ban

8th September 2010
Botswana Networks on Ethics, Laws and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) has expressed shock and disbelief at the Vice President's negative attitude towards provision of condoms in prisons as an intervention measure.
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Botswana: BONELA commends govt on amending Employment Act

31st August 2010
The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) has hailed government for amending the Employment Act, which previously permitted sexual orientation and health status as a basis for dismissal from one's employ.
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Botswana: Khama deports the man who 'insulted' him

21st October 2009
As everybody was lost in the electioneering process, President Ian Khama quietly prepared deportation orders for a man alleged to have dared to say something to the effect that he could be of a different sexual orientation. Sayed Fakhan Shah, a businessman of Indian origin has been slapped with a deportation order signed by Khama himself.
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Bostwana: BONELA to fight Gov't over 'gay' rights

19th February 2010
The newly appointed Director at Botswana Network Of Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), Uyapo Ndadi is set to fight it out with government in court over section 164 of the Penal Code, which criminalises same sex relationships.
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allAfrica.com - Botswana: Bonela Celebrates Passing of Public Service Act

16th January 2009
The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) has applauded the enactment of the Public Service Act of 2008 by parliament....
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Botswana: HIV, Aids legislation crucial

14th October 2009
Legal response in the form of legislation in the area of HIV and Aids within the Sadc region has been slow and inadequate, but rather than cite lack of relevant domestic laws and turning away litigants, the courts can turn to international law for guidance, a prominent judge has said.
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Botswana: Homosexuals and sex worker’s rights are human rights - BONELA

16th June 2010
Concerns over the lack of respect for human rights particularly of sex workers and people living with HIV and AIDS as well as homosexuals took centre stage during a recent one-day awareness campaign on Human Rights and HIV /AIDS.
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