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a party, especially the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights as well as the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families and send its periodic
reports to the treaty bodies.
- Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and article 1
of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Ratify the ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal
Peoples, in order to improve the situation of tribal groups in
Botswana.
- Recognize all unrecognized tribal groups and take practical
steps to eliminate all forms of discrimination against them,
providing them with equal opportunities to participate in social,
political, cultural lives.
- Recognize all the minority languages and provide all the
primary school children, including the minority children, with
the opportunity of access to education, especially education in
their own mother tongue.
- Continue its leading efforts to treat HIV/AIDS across its
territory, noting the country’s commitment to apply long term
solutions to the problem, and make sure that mineworkers of
BCL and Tati will have access to HIV/AIDS treatment and
counselling.
ODVV Submission to France UPR,
29th session of UPR Working group (January 2018)
France previous reviews and current incidents show that the main human
rights concerns in France include, breach of human rights obligations while
countering terrorism, the situation of refugees and migrants, discrimination
against the Roma people, restriction to freedom of dress, Islamophobia in the
mass media and political discourse and arms trade with countries that violate
human rights including Israel and Saudi Arabia. Based on the incidents of
human rights violations, ODVV has offered the following recommendations
to France UPR Working Group:
- In pursuing terror crimes, the French government must make
further efforts to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms
of its citizens. In the recent sessions of the Human Rights