{"id":42682,"date":"2025-10-21T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42682"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:19:58","slug":"botswana-moves-closer-to-ratifying-key-human-rights-covenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/botswana-moves-closer-to-ratifying-key-human-rights-covenants\/","title":{"rendered":"Bot\u00adswana moves closer to rat\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading key human rights cov\u00aden\u00adants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gov\u00adern\u00adment of Bot\u00adswana has reaf\u00adfirmed its com\u00admit\u00adment to rat\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading key inter\u00adna\u00adtional cov\u00aden\u00adants focused on human rights, includ\u00ading the Inter\u00adna\u00adtional Cov\u00aden\u00adant on Eco\u00adnomic, Social, and Cul\u00adtural Rights (ICESCR) and the 1961 Con\u00adven\u00adtion on the Reduc\u00adtion of State\u00adless\u00adness.<\/p>\n<p>Speak\u00ading on Fri\u00adday at the clos\u00ading cere\u00admony of a national con\u00adsulta\u00adtion work\u00adshop held in Gabor\u00adone, Act\u00ading Per\u00adman\u00adent Sec\u00adret\u00adary in the Min\u00adistry of Justice and Cor\u00adrec\u00adtional Ser\u00advices, Mof\u00adfat Lub\u00adinda, con\u00adfirmed that the coun\u00adtry is advan\u00adcing efforts to rat\u00adify the two inter\u00adna\u00adtional agree\u00adments.<\/p>\n<p>Speak\u00ading on Fri\u00adday at the clos\u00ading cere\u00admony of a national con\u00adsulta\u00adtion work\u00adshop held in Gabor\u00adone, Act\u00ading Per\u00adman\u00adent Sec\u00adret\u00adary in the Min\u00adistry of Justice and Cor\u00adrec\u00adtional Ser\u00advices, Mof\u00adfat Lub\u00adinda, con\u00adfirmed that the coun\u00adtry is advan\u00adcing efforts to rat\u00adify the two inter\u00adna\u00adtional agree\u00adments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBot\u00adswana will move ahead in hon\u00adour\u00ading its under\u00adtak\u00ading. The coun\u00adtry holds dearly to heart the oblig\u00ada\u00adtions pro\u00admul\u00adgated by UN mem\u00adber states and the res\u00adult\u00ading bene\u00adfits of rat\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading the eco\u00adnomic, social, and cul\u00adtural human rights cov\u00aden\u00adants and acces\u00adsion to the 1961 Con\u00adven\u00adtion on the Reduc\u00adtion of State\u00adless\u00adness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/botswana\/the-monitor-4753\/20251021\/281629606492044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/botswana\/the-monitor-4753\/20251021\/281629606492044<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gov\u00adern\u00adment of Bot\u00adswana has reaf\u00adfirmed its com\u00admit\u00adment to rat\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading key inter\u00adna\u00adtional cov\u00aden\u00adants focused on human rights, includ\u00ading the Inter\u00adna\u00adtional Cov\u00aden\u00adant on Eco\u00adnomic, Social, and Cul\u00adtural Rights (ICESCR) and the 1961 Con\u00adven\u00adtion on the Reduc\u00adtion of State\u00adless\u00adness. Speak\u00ading on Fri\u00adday at the clos\u00ading cere\u00admony of a national con\u00adsulta\u00adtion work\u00adshop held in Gabor\u00adone, Act\u00ading Per\u00adman\u00adent Sec\u00adret\u00adary [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-botswana","type-news-articles","item-year-698","item-theme-international-standards","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42683,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42682\/revisions\/42683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}