The Botswana Network on Ethics Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) condemns all forms of Gender Based Violence against women and young girls. This call follows an incident that took place at Gaborone Bus Rank recently, where a young woman was verbally abused, stripped naked and publicly humiliated and degraded by a mob of men. The perpetrators attempted to justify their actions with the fact that the young woman was wearing a short skirt. “Such acts of violence against women and young girls should be condemned in the strongest terms possible as they limit women and girl’s constitutional rights to freedom of movement, freedom of expression and the right to dignity. Women are rights holders and society should, therefore respect, promote and protect these rights”, said Cindy Kelemi, Executive Director of BONELA. The Protocol on Gender and Development (2008), defines Gender Based Violence as all acts perpetrated against women, men, girls, and boys on the basis of their sex which cause or could cause them physical, sexual psychological, emotional or economic harm - including the threat to take such acts or to undertake the imposition of arbitrary restrictions on or deprivation of fundamental freedoms in private or public life in peace times…