16 Days of Activism 2014 Botswana

Date: December 16, 2014

KEY FACTS

Botswana is one of the six SADC countries that have conducted a Violence Against Women Baseline Study.
Parliament passed the Domestic Violence Act in 2008 and in 2013 regulations for implementation and a budget were developed.
Up to two in three women in Botswana have experienced GBV at some point in their lifetime.
Sixty percent of women in Botswana reported experiencing intimate partner violence in their lifetime.
Eleven percent reported that they had been raped in their lifetime.
Sexual offences in Botswana are dealt with under the penal code.
Botswana has not criminalised marital rape.
Botswana does not have a law on human trafficking.

View the Botswana Violence Against Women Baseline Research study

View the I Stories – first hand accounts of GBV from Botswana

ACTIVITIES:

For any queries please contact Mboy, botsintern@genderlinks.org.za or Keletso – progbotswana@genderlink.org.za

DATE	THEME	SLOGAN	BOTSWANA ACTIVITIES	WHERE
November
Fri 21	Economic development and GBV action planning	Take back the Money	Business Breakfast	Gaborone
Mon 24	Empower Women	Take back the Money	Community Conversation	Tsabong
Tue 25	Launch International day of no violence against women	Peace begins at home	I stories launch	Tsabong
Wed 26	End violence empower women	Peace begins at home	Cyber Dialogue	Gaborone
Thur 27	Education and employment to curb GBV	Stop the cycle of violence	Reviewing of GBV action Plans workshop	Jwaneng
Fri 28	The cost of GBV	End violence, save finance	Reviewing of GBV action Plans workshop	Jwaneng
December
Mon 1	World Aids Day
Tue 2	Femicide	Getting away with murder	Reviewing of GBV action Plans workshop and Google Hangout	Katleng & Lobatse
Wed 3	International Day of Disability	For an enabling society	Reviewing of GBV action Plans workshop	Katleng & Lobatse
Thur 4	Harmful practices, GBV and economic disempowerment	Voice, choice and control
Fri 5	Diverse sexuality and gender identities	Embrace diversity	Cyber Dialogue	Gaborone
Mon 8	Commercial and transactional sex	Economic agency for gender equality	Reviewing of GBV action Plans workshop	Chobe
Tue 9	Human trafficking and slavery	Abolish slavery!	Reviewing of GBV action Plans workshop	Chobe
Mon 8	Commercial and transactional sex	Economic agency for gender equality	Reviewing of GBV action Plans workshop	Ghanzi
Tue 9	Human trafficking and slavery	Abolish slavery!	Reviewing of GBV action Plans workshop	Ghanzi
Wed 10	International Human Rights Day	Yes we must!	Google Hangout	Gaborone
Wed 10	International Human Rights Day	Yes we must!	Botswana Barometer Launch	Gaborone

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