BOTSWANA BUSHMEN'S RIGHTS

EDM number 1500 in 2002-03, proposed by Angus Robertson on 01/07/2003.

That this House recognises the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana, as the ancestral land of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen and their neighbours the Bakgalagadi; notes that the Central Kalahari Game Reserve was established in 1961 by the British colonial administration as a home for the Bushmen and as a means of protecting their rights; expresses its concern over the Government of Botswana's reported forcible eviction of most of the Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve; and calls upon the Government urgently to investigate these reports and to use its political and diplomatic ties with the Government of Botswana, to encourage the respect and further strengthening of the rights and freedoms of the Bushmen as established under international law.

This motion has been signed by a total of 53 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.