![]() She has served on numerous international commissions and committees, examining and advising on issues surrounding the human rights of people living in Kenya, Palestine, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. She also worked as Minister of Basic Education, Minister of Infrastructure and Housing Development, and Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation. She was appointed as an Assistant Minister of Education and then became the Minister of Education and Skills Development. Judge Dow was elected to the National Assembly in 2014 as a special elected member of parliament. Coincidentally, she is the only person to have served in all three arms of the Botswana government. Later in 1997, she became the first woman to be appointed as a judge on the country’s High Court, a very distinguished honor. ![]() After serving in this position for several years, she entered private practice, focusing on criminal law and opening the firm Dow Malakaila, the first all-woman law firm in the country. Lawyer, human rights activist, writer, and specially elected member of parliament, the Honorable Unity Dow began her legal career working in the chambers of the Attorney General as a criminal prosecutor in Gaborone, Botswana.
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