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The Citizenship Act of 1982 provided that any child born in Botswana became a national, unless at the time of birth, it acquired nationality elsewhere through descent from its father. It allowed only illegitimate children to derive nationality from a mother if she was a native-born Motswana, but for derivation of nationality from a father, the ...
The action, Unity Dow v Attorney-General (Botswana) (High Court of Botswana Misca. 124/1990), argued that the 1984 Citizenship Act was discriminatory because it did not allow children the equal ability to derive nationality from their parents. [4] Dow was an indigenous Mosarwa woman who had a child with Peter Nathan Dow, a US national, in 1979.
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 ...
Nationality law is the law of a sovereign state, and of each of its jurisdictions, that defines the legal manner in which a national identity is acquired and how it may be lost. In international law, the legal means to acquire nationality and formal membership in a nation are separated from the relationship between a national and the nation ...
This section defines the rights of the citizens. It begins by stating that everyone is guaranteed rights regardless of race, creed, or sex. The rights are as follows: "(a) life, liberty, security of the person and the protection of the law; (b) freedom of conscience, of expression and of assembly and association; and (c) protection for the privacy of his or her home and other property and from ...
In 1990, Dow filed suit in the High Court of Botswana to challenge the Nationality law of Botswana. [3] Under the 1984 Citizenship Act, only illegitimate children could derive nationality through their mother. [15] As two of her three children with Peter were born after their marriage, they were not considered Batswana. [16]
Law enforcement in Botswana (2 C, 2 P) H. Human rights in Botswana (4 C, 3 P) J. ... Botswanan nationality law; C. Capital punishment in Botswana; K. Kgotla; L.
Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north and Zimbabwe to the northeast.