16 Days of activism 2015 Botswana

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

(Themes in red are internationally recognised days)