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Botswana officially erases ban on same-sex intimacy

DIck Bayford Botswana AG

More than six years after Botswana’s courts struck down the ban on same-sex intimacy, the government has now formally removed the discriminatory provisions from the law. By Luis de Barros It has emerged that, on 26 March, the government published a notice amending the Penal Code by deleting paragraphs (a) and (c) of Section 164, which refers to “Unnatural Offences”. …

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