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Botswana

Citizenship and Country Documents

US Government Reports

Foreign Government Organization Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BWA104042.E - Birth certificates, national identity cards, electronic passports, and driver's licenses and the names of the agencies that issue them - April 2012
    • BWA41995.E - Rights (e.g., to work, study, access social assistance and return), and obligations of temporary and permanent residents, particularly for a person who lived in Botswana as a temporary resident for 10 years - November 2003
    • BWA41652.E - Rights of residence or citizenship available to a man from Zimbabwe married to a female citizen of Botswana - June 2003

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Children

US Government Reports

 

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Elections

Non-Government Organization Reports

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Ethnic Groups / Race

Foreign Government Organization Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BWA41882.E - Forced circumcision of males; tribes or ethnic groups that practise it, ages at which practised, consequences for someone who refuses to be circumcised and availability of state protection - September 2003
    • BWA40997.E - The royal family of Bangwaketse in the southern part of Botswana including their chieftaincy practices and rituals - April 2003

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Minority Rights Group International - State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - 2016
  • World Directory of Minorities - Overview

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Basarwa

Non-Governmental Organization Reports

  • World Directory of Minorities - Basarwa - 2015

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Wayeyi

  • World Directory of Minorities - Wayeyi - 2015

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Gender

Foreign Government Organization Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BWA103714.E - Domestic violence, including legislation, state protection, recourse and services available to victims - February 2011
    • BWA102164.FE - Domestic violence, including services and protection for victims and whether victims have recourse to the courts - March 2007
    • BWA41882.E - Forced circumcision of males; tribes or ethnic groups that practise it, ages at which practised, consequences for someone who refuses to be circumcised and availability of state protection - September 2003

Non-Governmental Organization Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • We are facing extinction: Escalating anti-LGBTI sentiment, the weaponization of law and their human rights implications in select African countries - Jan. 2024

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Human Rights

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Amnesty International Reports: The state of the World’s Human Right - Apr. 2024,  2022/21, 2019, 2017/18
  • Amnesty International Profiles
    • We are facing extinction: Escalating anti-LGBTI sentiment, the weaponization of law and their human rights implications in select African countries - Jan. 2024
    • Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the world’s human rights - Mar. 2023
    • The State of African Regional Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms 2019-2020 - Oct. 2020
    • Death Sentences and Executions 2019 - Apr. 2020
    • Human Rights in Africa:  Review of 2019 – April 2020
  • Freedom House - 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

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Justice System

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Amnesty International Report
    • We are facing extinction: Escalating anti-LGBTI sentiment, the weaponization of law and their human rights implications in select African countries - Jan. 2024
    • Death Sentences and Executions 2020 - Apr. 2021
    • Death Sentences and Executions 2019 - Apr. 2020

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Maps

Non-Governmental Organization Reports

  • University of Texas at Austion - Map Collection - Botswana

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Medical Availability

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

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Political Figures and Parties

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Refugees

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • We are facing extinction: Escalating anti-LGBTI sentiment, the weaponization of law and their human rights implications in select African countries - Jan. 2024
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    • Fact sheet on the breakdown of refugees, aslyum-seekers and IDPs in Southern Africa (as of April 2023) - July 2023

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Religion

US Government Reports

  • State Department International Religious Freedom Report  - 2021
  • U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
    • Violating Rights – Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws – Criminal Blasphemy Laws as of 2020 - Dec. 2020

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Sexual Orientation

Foreign Government Organization Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BWA102165.E - Treatment of homosexuals by society and the government; legal recourse and protection available to homosexuals who have been subject to ill-treatment - March 2007

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • We are facing extinction: Escalating anti-LGBTI sentiment, the weaponization of law and their human rights implications in select African countries - Jan. 2024

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Speech / Press / Internet

Non-Government Organizational Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • We are facing extinction: Escalating anti-LGBTI sentiment, the weaponization of law and their human rights implications in select African countries - Jan. 2024

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Timeline

Media

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Trafficking

US Government Reports

Updated April 30, 2024