Botswana

NGO Contacts
United Nations Contacts
Government Contacts
New York Permanent Mission

NGO CONTACTS

Botswana Women's NGO Coalition
The main goal of the WNGOC is to facilitate effective coordination and collaboration of the activities of member organizations aimed at the advancement of women in the country, particularly rural women for the promotion of equality, development and peace.
Private Bag 00342, Gaborone, BW
Ph#: +267 585004/5
Fax#: +267 584685
Email: womens_ngo_coa@info.bw
Website: http://www.womenscoalition.org.bw/index.htm

Metlhaetsile Women's Information Centre Molao Lesedi Centre for Human Rights
The organization’s aims are to provide legal education and support to rural women; to lobby and advocate for law reform through parliament and through the courts.
Privat Bag 42
Mochudi, Botswana
Ph#: 267 377239
Fax#: 267 377195
E-mail: mwic@bc.bw

Women Against Rape (WAR)
The main activities include providing education, counselling, legal support and moral support to raped women. The organization have campaigned for medical evidence to be provided by nurses in village clinics where there are no medical doctors in rape cases, as well as lobbied for harsher sentences for rapists.
Issues: Reproductive Rights, Sexuality, Violence Aginst Women,
Policy/Government, Girls/Youth Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Women
PO Box 319, Maun, Botswana
Ph #: 267 550865
Fax #: 267 660865
Email: war@info.bw

UNITED NATIONS CONTACTS

Division for the Advancement of Women
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations
New York, NY 10017, USA
Fax#: (212) 963-3463
Email: daw@un.org
Website: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Email: unicef_gaborone@unicef.org
Website: www.unicef.org.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) - Southern Africa Regional Office
Countries: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles Islands, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Takura House, 67/69 Union Avenue
Harare, Zimbabwe
Ph#: 263 4 792 681
Fax#: 263 4 704 729

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Email: undp.bw@undp.org
Gender Programme Email: gender.bw@undp.org

UNDP Africa
One United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA
Fax#: (212) 906-6478
Website: http://www.un.org/rba

UNDP Botswana
Mr. Bjorn FORDE UNDP Resident Representative
P.O. Box 54, Gaborone, Botswana 267
Ph#: (267)352-121
Fax#: (267)356- 093
Email: fo.bwa@undp.org
Web site: www.undp.org/rba/
Last Update: Jan 2, 2003 10:55

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Email: unesco.bw@undp.org

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Email: unhcr.bw@undp.org

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Email: unfpa.bw@undp.org

United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Email: unaids.bw@undp.org

GOVERNMENT CONTACTS

Women's Affairs Unit
Department of Culture, Registration and Social Welfare Matters
Private Bag 00185, Gaborone

Women's Affairs Department
Thusanyo House, 288 Old Lobatse Road, Private Bag 00107 Gabarone
Ph#: (267) 312-290
Fax#: (267) 311-944

NEW YORK PERMANENT MISSION


Permanent Mission of Botswana to the United Nations
103 East 37th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA
Ph#: (212) 889-2277, -2331, -2491, -2772
Fax#: (212) 725-5061
Email: botswana@un.int or bwaun@undp.org