The United Nations has branded Botswana’s constitutional review process as a “piecemeal” exercise.
The United Nations also took issue with what it calls the Presidential Commissions of Inquiry’s recommendations which in some instances called for “discrete changes.”
In its updated Common Country Analysis (CCA) 2024 for Botswana, the international human rights watchdog drew heavily on the recommendations that were made by the Law Society of Botswana (LSB) to criticize Botswana’s failure to use the “opportunity to bring the constitutional prohibition of discrimination in section 15 of the Botswana Constitution in line with international human rights standards and SDG 5 Target 5.1, 6 as well as implementing related recommendations by the Human Rights Committee.”
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