Loud and unusual applause reverberated around the UN Human Rights Council chamber in Geneva as a battle fought for decades by environmental activists and human rights defenders finally bore fruit.
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Thank you so much Hon minister for your attendance & statement to the meeting. Botswana is proud to coordinate a process that could - for the first time in 25 years- put a woman & an African at the helm of the WTO. Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala is 100 fit for the job.👏🏽💪🏾
Proud moment as Botswana joins the executive board of the WHO. At the ongoing WHA in Geneva, Minister of Health & Wellness, Dr Lemogang Kwape, shared our response to the COVID19 pandemic, & reaffirmed our firm support for the WHO & its leading role in global health governance.🇧🇼
Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, Hon. Bogolo J. Kenewendo at a dinner hosted by the Honorary Consul of Botswana in Austria Dr Meixner #DoingItForTheRepublic
#HRC38 adopts RES on #business & #HumanRights: improving accountability & access to remedy. Requests WG to convene consultation on role of #NHRIs in facilitating access to remedy & @UNHumanRights HC to disseminate Accountability &Remedy Project &convene consult. Reports at #HRC44
The Permanent Representative of Botswana to the UN in Geneva with the Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Center...moving Botswana forward! https://t.co/lf4sJmrGPH
#StandUp4HumanRights: “The worst offenders' disregard and contempt for human rights will be the eventual undoing of all of us. This, we cannot allow to happen.” - #Zeid https://t.co/x662CNPpVp #HRC37 https://t.co/bP4Ru6UHkG
“The responsibility for the continuation of so much pain lies with the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council. So long as the veto is used by them to block any unity of action… it is they who must answer before the victims.” -#Zeid LIVE @UN_HRC https://t.co/x662CNPpVp