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Dow, Civil Appeal No. 4/91, and known locally as the Citizenship Case or Dow Case) [1] was a landmark decision of Botswana's Court of Appeal. The case upheld the decision brought to the High Court of Botswana , by the lawyer, Unity Dow , who would go on to become a judge on the High Court and a government minister.
During her time in law, Dow was involved in three historic cases in Botswana. In 1990, she was the plaintiff in the landmark legal case, Unity Dow v Attorney-General, which ended the gender discrimination in the nation's nationality laws that had previously not allowed children to derive nationality from their married mothers. The case gained ...
Attorney General of Botswana v. Unity Dow was a landmark case in Botswana women's rights, in which Unity Dow challenged the Botswanan nationality law that only allowed citizenship to be inherited paternally. [13] The Woman's Affairs Department is the government agency responsible for addressing women's issues. It has been criticised by women's ...
In 1992, Unity Dow successfully challenged the law, sparking women to press for changes to nationality laws across Africa. [66] A new Citizenship Act was enacted in 1995, eliminating the gender discrepancies in the prior legislation. [67] In 2021, Sithabile Pauline Mathe, instituted a legal challenge to Botswana's prohibition of dual nationality.
3 July – A ruling is made in favour of Unity Dow in Attorney General of Botswana v. Unity Dow. [1]: xxxvii 1993 The Pula Fund, a sovereign wealth fund, is established. [citation needed] The human rights group Ditshwanelo is founded. [citation needed] 1994 Apartheid in neighbouring South Africa ends. [2]: 21
A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face charges in the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide in 2022. Prosecutors allege the scammer posed as a young woman ...
Jan. 13—SANTA FE — An intense legal fight over the ethics investigation into state Rep. Rebecca Dow played out quietly in court last year, sealed from public view. Dow, a Republican candidate ...
Unity Dow (born 1959) is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. She comes from a rural background that tended towards traditional African values. Her mother could not read English, and in most cases decision-making was done by men. She went on to become a lawyer with much of her education being done in the West.