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227047

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Botswana
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord De Mauley on 24 February (HL4991), and in the light of the United Kingdom's special responsibility for the rights of the bushmen of the Kalahari when granting independence to Botswana in 1961, what is their assessment of whether the hunting ban imposed on the bushmen by the government of Botswana in 2014 is a <i>prima facie</i> breach of Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and whether they will make representations to the government of Botswana if they conclude that it is.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL5686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>Botswana is a democracy with an independent judiciary. We have not made any assessment as to whether the Government of Botswana’s ban on hunting or any decision on the supply of food to the San constitutes a breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Botswana constitution guarantees the rights and freedoms of all Batswana irrespective of race, colour, religion, gender, political opinion or place of origin. The UK follows closely the situation of the San communities in Botswana. We will continue to encourage dialogue between the San communities and the Government of Botswana.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns grouped question UIN HL5687 question first answered 20/03/2015 14:34:25 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

227048

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Botswana
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord De Mauley on 24 February (HL4991), what assessment they have made of whether the hunting ban imposed on the bushmen of the Kalahari in 2014 by the government of Botswana breaches Article 1(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, by which states agree that "peoples" are not to be deprived of their means of subsistence.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL5687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>Botswana is a democracy with an independent judiciary. We have not made any assessment as to whether the Government of Botswana’s ban on hunting or any decision on the supply of food to the San constitutes a breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Botswana constitution guarantees the rights and freedoms of all Batswana irrespective of race, colour, religion, gender, political opinion or place of origin. The UK follows closely the situation of the San communities in Botswana. We will continue to encourage dialogue between the San communities and the Government of Botswana.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns grouped question UIN HL5686 question first answered 20/03/2015 14:34:25 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

227049

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Botswana
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord De Mauley on 24 February (HL4991), whether they consider that the government of Botswana's decision not to supply food to the bushmen of the Kalahari who have a legal right to live in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve constitutes a breach of Article 1(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL5688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>We have not made any assessment as to whether the Government of Botswana’s ban on hunting or any decision on the supply of food to the San constitutes a breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Botswana is a democracy with an independent judiciary. The constitution guarantees the rights and freedoms of all Batswana irrespective of race, colour, religion, gender, political opinion or place of origin. The UK follows closely the situation of the San communities in Botswana. We will continue to encourage dialogue between the San communities and the Government of Botswana, and raise issues at an appropriate level.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 20/03/2015 14:35:04 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch