PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Southern Africa: LGBT+ People (4 September 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for International Trade on LGBT rights in (a) Botswana, (b) Namibia and (c) Swaziland.

Asked by:
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat)

Our High Commissions regularly raise LGBT rights with Eswatini, Namibia and Botswana as part of our human rights agenda. The Prime Minister championed LGBT rights at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in April 2018, which was attended by Botswana, Namibia and Eswatini.

Answered by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)
10 September 2018