Botswana will appeal high court's ruling that decriminalized same-sex relations

Botswana LGBTQ movement.
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Botswana's government is seeking to overturn what was considered a major victory for LGBTQ rights in the country.

Botswana's high court unanimously overturned a colonial-era law criminalizing same-sex relations in June, but the government will appeal the ruling.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.