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Botswana

Next review: 2023

Timeline for UPR engagement in the current cycle

Review phasei
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From the date of the Working Group session until the Adoption outcome report (approximately 4- 6 months)
Follow up phasei
Close
Approximately 3 years starting from the Adoption of the outcome reports
National consultations and drafting phasei
Close
1 year before the next Working Group
Advocacy phasei
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From the submission of Other Stakeholders reports until Working group session (approximately 7 months).
UPR Working Group
01-05-2023
Adoption outcome report
10-2023
Stakeholders report deadline
11-10-2022
National report deadline
01-02-2023
Pre session
03-04-2023
UPR Working Group
01-05-2023

Civil Society Materials

Pre-session Statement

Pre-session Statement

BOFWA Presentation Pre-session 43 Botswana
BOFWA Statement Pre-session 43 Botswana
Cybersmart Botswana pre-session 43 Botswana
Cybersmart Botswana Presentation Pre-session 43 Botswana
DITSHWANELO presentation Pre-session 43 Botswana
DITSHWANELO Statement Pre-session 43 Botswana
Omnia Strategy presentation Pre-session 43 Botswana
Omnia Strategy statement Pre-session 43 Botswana

Documentation for CSOs

Factsheets

Botswana Pre-session 43
Child Rights
Human Trafficking
Ratification and Domestication of human rights instruments

Official OHCHR documents

National report

National report

A/HRC/WG.6/43/BWA/1

Annex National report

A/HRC/WG.6/43/BWA/1_Annex

Compilation of UN information

Compilation of UN information

A/HRC/WG.6/43/BWA/2
A/HRC/WG.6/43/BWA/2_Annex

Summary of other stakeholders information

Summary of other stakeholders information

A/HRC/WG.6/43/BWA/3

Civil society and other submissions

Civil society and other submissions

AI - Amnesty International
CGNK - Center for Global Nonkilling
ECLJ - European Centre for Law and Justice
End Violence - Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
JS2 - Joint Submission 2
JS3 - Joint Submission 3
JS4 - Joint Submission 4
JS5 - Joint Submission 5
UPR BCU - The UPR Project at BCU

UN Agencies submissions

UNESCO org - UNESCO
UNHCR - UNHCR
UNRCO Botswana - UNCT Botswana

Official OHCHR documents

National report

National report

A/HRC/WG.6/29/BWA/1

Compilation of UN information

Compilation of UN information

A/HRC/WG.6/29/BWA/2
A/HRC/WG.6/29/BWA/2-Annex

Summary of other stakeholders information

Summary of other stakeholders information

A/HRC/WG.6/29/BWA/3

Adoption in the Plenary session

Adoption in the Plenary session

United Nations Development Programme

Report of the Working group (final)

A/HRC/38/8

Addendum

A/HRC/38/8/Add.1

Report of the HRC session

A/HRC/38/2

Oral statement by other stakeholders (adoption)

Action Canada for Population and Development
Amnesty International
Center for Global Nonkilling
Federatie van Nederlandse Verenigingen tot Integratie van Homoseksualiteit -_COC Nederland_on_botswana
Rencontre africaine pour la Defense des Droits de lHomme
United Nations Childrens Fund

Civil society and other submissions

NGO submissions

ADF International
Civil society
COMEF - Community Media Foundation
CS - Cultural Survival
GIEACPC - Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
JS1 - Joint Submission 1
JS2 - Joint Submission 2
JS3 - Joint Submission 3
JS4 - Joint Submission 4
ODVV - Organization for Defending Victim of Violence

Annex NGO submissions

COMEF - Community Media Foundation
JS3 - Joint Submission 3

UN Agencies submissions

UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Review in the Working Group

Report of the Working group (draft)

A/HRC/WG.6/29/L.5

Questions written in advance

Questions written in advance

Follow-up

Miscellaneous documents

Letter from OHCHR on Implementation in 3rd Cycle

Civil Society Materials

Follow-up

Civil society and other mid-term reports

Mid-term report Botswana

Official OHCHR documents

National report

National report

A/HRC/WG.6/15/BWA/1

Compilation of UN information

Compilation of UN information

A/HRC/WG.6/15/BWA/2

Summary of other stakeholders information

Summary of other stakeholders information

A/HRC/WG.6/15/BWA/3

Civil society and other submissions

NGO submissions

CHRI - Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
CRIN - Child Rights International Network
GIEACPC - Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
JS1 - Joint Submission 1
MRG - Minority Rights Group

Review in the Working Group

Report of the Working group (draft)

A/HRC/WG.6/15/L.5

Questions written in advance

Advance written questions

Questions written in advance additional

Advance written questions

Adoption in the Plenary session

Report of the Working group (final)

A/HRC/23/7
A/HRC/23/7/Corr.1

Corrigendum Report of the Working group (final)

A/HRC/23/7/Corr.1

Addendum

A/HRC/23/7/Add.1

Report of the HRC session

A/HRC/23/2: Report of the Human Rights Council on its twenty-third session

Oral statement by the State under Review (adoption)

Statement by Botswana

Oral statement by other stakeholders (adoption)

Action Canada for the Population and Development
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
ILGA
Minority Rights Group

Follow-up

State's Mid-term report

Botswana mid-term Report (2016)

Official OHCHR documents

National report

National report

A/HRC/WG.6/3/BWA/1

Compilation of UN information

Compilation of UN information

A/HRC/WG.6/3/BWA/2

Summary of other stakeholders information

Summary of other stakeholders information

A/HRC/WG.6/3/BWA/3

Civil society and other submissions

NGO submissions

Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria
GIEACPC - Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
ILGA (Joint Submission)
Multicultural Coalition of Botswana

UN Agencies submissions

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Review in the Working Group

Report of the Working group (draft)

A/HRC/WG.6/3/L.1

Questions written in advance

Advance written questions

Adoption in the Plenary session

Report of the Working group (final)

A/HRC/10/69

Addendum

A/HRC/10/69/Add.1

Report of the HRC session

A/HRC/10/29: Report of the Human Rights Council on its tenth session

Oral statement by the State under Review (adoption)

Statement by Botswana

Oral statement by other stakeholders (adoption)

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network

Follow-up

Mid-term Implementation Assessment

UPR Info's Mid-term Implementation Assessment