Botswana
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Data sources
- African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, [website], 2018, https://www.achpr.org/legalinstruments/detail?id=46 (accessed January 2020).
- African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, [website], 2018, https://au.int/en/treaties/protocol-african-charter-human-and-peoples-rights-rights-women-africa (accessed January 2020).
- Botswana Guardian, MP Keorapetse pushes for abolition of child marriages, [website], 2019, http://www.botswanaguardian.co.bw/news/item/3909-mp-keorapetse-pushes-for-abolition-of-child-marriages.html (accessed January 2020).
- Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Botswana: Information on forced marriages; state protection available, 2011, http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f9e33142.html (accessed January 2020).
- Marriage Act, 2001, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/vitalstatkb/KnowledgebaseArticle50030.aspx (accessed January 2020).
- Ministerial Commitment on comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young people in Eastern and Southern African[website], 2014, https://www.youngpeopletoday.org/esa-commitment/ (accessed January 2020).
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Joint statement on child, early and forced marriage, HRC 27, Agenda Item 3, [website], 2014, http://fngeneve.um.dk/en/aboutus/statements/newsdisplaypage/?newsid=6371ad93-8fb0-4c35-b186-820fa996d379 (accessed January 2020).
- Mmegi Botswana, Africa meets against child marriage, [website], 2018, http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=56004&dir=2015/november/25 (accessed January 2020).
- U.S. Department of State, United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, [website], 2019, https://www.state.gov/where-we-work-pepfar/ (accessed January 2020).
- UN CEDAW, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Botswana, 2010, p.7 and 11, http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/BOT/CO/3&Lang=En (accessed January 2020).
- UN CEDAW, Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Botswana, CEDAW/C/BWA/CO/4, 2019, p. 9, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW%2fC%2fBWA%2fCO%2f4&Lang=en (accessed January 2020).
- UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the combined second and third reports of Botswana, CRC/C/BWA/CO/2-3, 2019, p. 4, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2fBWA%2fCO%2f2-3&Lang=en (accessed January 2020).
- United Nations, Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, [website], 2017, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg5 (accessed January 2020).