(a) Exploring the possibility of adopting reformative measures to incorporate parental participation in the discipline and punishment of the child while abandoning acts that degrade and dehumanize the child. Public debates on corporal punishment were initiated with the support of UNICEF-Botswana Country Office through the media and the Kgotla system. Influential persons, such as the former Minister of Local Government and Speaker of the National Assembly engaged traditional leaders and communities on the importance of other alternative ways of disciplining children with antisocial behaviours. (b) Drafted the Education and Training Bill, 2014, which is a re-enactment of the Education Act (Cap. 58:01) with amendments. The Bill, among others, is as a result of the Children’s Act, which compels the Education Act to be amended to ensure that the rights of the child are adequately catered for. Section 14 of the Bill prohibits administration of corporal punishment in school in the following terms, “a learner shall not be subjected to torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in any manner, whether physical, emotional or psychological”. We regard to corporal punishment in prisons, consultations are ongoing within the Ministry of Defence, Justice and Security (MDJS) on a possible revision of the legislation regarding the functioning of the Prisons in Botswana. 5. There is no organ that is mandated to look into human rights violations. Steps are being taken to confer the human rights mandate to the Office of the Ombudsman. To this end, the Government of Botswana has embarked on benchmarking missions to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) of Ghana from 24 September to 2 October 2015 and to the Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) of Tanzania from 7 - 11 March 2016. 6. Information on the recognition of economic, social cultural and environmental rights in the Constitution of Botswana. Socio-economic rights in Botswana are not judicially enforceable to the extent that they are not provided for in the Constitution. Those rights are not granted by the Botswana in its present form.. That said, other pieces of legislation take cognisance of these rights and among others, seek to protect them as follows: Economic Rights: Even though economic rights are not explicitly provided for in the Constitution, the Acquisition of Property Act (Cap 32:01), read together with the Sections 3, 8 18 | P a g e