Full Coverage: Botswana

22.04.2008 Tourist lodges requiring large amounts of water are to be built on the land of the Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana – but the Bushmen are not allowed to pump water from their single borehole, says an organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide.

16.01.2008 a prominent businessman and ruling Botswana Democratic Party councillor, Robert Muzila, is alleged to have verbally harassed "Mmegi" newspaper journalist Oarabile Mosikare.

31.08.2007 A coalition of Botswana Civil society organisations that include the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Botswana , the Ditshwanelo-Centre for Human Rights and the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO) have expressed disappointment following the refusal of the ruling party members of parliament to grant the opposition members a postponement of the discussion and voting on amendments to the Intelligence and Security Services Bill.

22.08.2007 A report comparing the Botswana government's arguments justifying the eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen from their traditional homelands with arguments used to defend the transatlantic slave trade is published today, UN Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.

03.07.2007 Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria and Namibia are leading a campaign by African governments to weaken a key UN Declaration that would protect the rights of indigenous peoples, according to campaigners.

05.06.2007 A new study is the first to link widespread discrimination against women to sexual risk-taking, and thus HIV/AIDS. In sub-Saharan Africa, three quarters of those now infected are female.
From: Physicians for Human Rights

22.05.2007 Bushman leader Roy Sesana will meet British MPs at the House of Commons on Wednesday to seek support for his peopleÂ’s 10-year struggle to return to their land in the Kalahari desert in Botswana.
* Tribal peoples group launched in UK parliament

14.05.2007 The Botswana government has announced that access to the country for the top UN human rights spokesman for indigenous peoples, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, will be restricted.

30.04.2007 A Bushman spokesperson has appealed to the Indian government to respect an order of the Indian Supreme Court that has asked for closure of the Andaman Trunk Road that will harm the Jarawa tribes.

19.03.2007 Only months after a High Court ruling enabled Botswana Bushmen to return to land from which they had been evicted, the government has turned down their request for permission to install a pump at an existing borehole. A leader of the community is travelling to London this week to protest against the ban.

13.02.2007 Six Bushmen have been arrested, starved and held for six days after police and wildlife guards accused them of hunting in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana - only two months after a landmark court victory ruled that the Bushmen have a constitutional right to remain on their ancestral land.

17.01.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - Tribal Bushmen began returning to their ancestral lands inside Botswana's largest game reserve this weekend, despite what their supporters describe as a heavy police presence and attempts to persuade them to stay in relocation camps.

16.01.2007 A group of 40 Bushmen have managed to return to their homes in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, despite a heavy police presence and attempts to persuade them to stay in the relocation camps.

09.01.2007 A group of Kalahari Bushmen will return to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve on Friday, following a historic court ruling that their eviction by the Botswana government was "unlawful and unconstitutional" and that they have the right to live on their ancestral land.

19.12.2006 The Botswana government's statement that it will not appeal a High Court ruling in favour of the Central Kalahari Bushmen was welcomed by Survival International today.

14.12.2006 Botswana's High Court ruled Wednesday that the country's indigenous Bushmen people have the right to live on their ancestral land, from which they had been evicted as diamond mining companies were allowed to move in.

09.11.2006 When a culture is destroyed in the name of progress, it is not progress. It is a loss for the world," says Archbishop Desmond Tutu about the Botswana government's treatment of its indigenous people.

27.10.2006 Media watchdogs have criticized attempts by the Botswana government to control state media coverage of a controversial program to relocate the San community from their ancestral land in a game reserve.

18.10.2006 In its forthcoming report on indigenous peoples in Botswana, the continent's top human rights body is highly critical of the government's treatment of the Bushmen tribe.

11.10.2006 WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (OneWorld) - Allies of dispossessed African Bushmen assailed Botswana's diamond industry as the Southern African country's president told a U.S. audience Tuesday the gem is an economic lifeline.