Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL (includes LC Portals: Botswana)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW RESOURCE

• Constitution of Botswana (Botswana Embassy) March 1965, effective 30 September 1966, amended in 2002
• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)

EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT BRANCH

• President
• Government
• Attorney General

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: High Court; Court of Appeal

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Parliament, consisting of the Ntlo ya Dikgosi [House of Chiefs] and the National Assembly
• NATLEX: Botswana (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• Bank of Botswana (Botswana Bank) includes bank acts and regulations

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LEGAL GUIDES AND REGIONAL SPECIFIC LAWS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Botswana (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Botswana’s Legal System and Legal Research (Lubabalo Booi, via GlobaLex) October 2006
• Natural Resources Legislation: Botswana (University of Denver College of Law)
• Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (Jane Williams, via GlobaLex) June 2006
• World Law Index: Botswana (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Africa: Botswana (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL

• Portals to the World: Botswana ()
• Background Notes: Botswana (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Botswana (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Botswana (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Botswana (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Botswana (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Botswana (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Botswana (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Botswana (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Botswana National Library Service - information (IFLA)
• NEWS: BBC World Africa
• U.S. Embassy, Gaborone (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Botswana (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Botswana (Google); Botswana (Stanford University); Botswana (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Botswana (Columbia University)