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Botswana: Challenging criminalisation of same-sex sexual relationships

In September 2016, a gay man, filed an application challenging the constitutionality of sections 164(a), 164(c) and 165 of the Botswana Penal Code. These provisions criminalise same-sex sexual acts between…

Staff Writer11 June 2019

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