Child Abuse Watchdog

1.0 Introduction The delegates representing 16 countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa region, gathered at Sunbird Hotel in Lilongwe, M...

The magnitude of child pornography in Botswana is not yet known. However, we provisions have been made in the Children’s Act of 2009 with re...

In Botswana, gender-based violence takes many forms including emotional and physical abuse, economic deprivation, rape and recently passion ...

Definition of an orphan An orphan is a child under 18 years who has lost one or both parents. A social orphan is a child who has been abando...

Here's what meaningful Child Participation means... Child participation involves encouraging and enabling children to make their views k...

The object of the new Children’s Act is not only to give effect to Botswana’s obligations in terms of United Nations Convention on the Right...

BOTSWANA GOVERNMENT’S COMMITMENT ON CHILD PROTECTION The Government of Botswana ratified various international conventions and instruments d...

In Botswana, the concept of the best interests of the child is not constitutionally enshrined nor built into public or private institutional...

The ‘Day of the African Child’ is a day when the African nations come together in unison, to recall and reflect on the achievements made and...

There is national concern about the growing numbers of vulnerable children and the need to protect them, through a coordinated guided respon...