Unity Dow (born 23 April 1959) is a human rights activist ,former Motswana judge and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. She came from a rural background that tended toward traditional values. In 1992, she successfully challenged the law that argued that citizenship was inherited by children from the fathers and not from their mothers, sparking women to press for changes to nationality laws across Africa. She also went to court to argue that a gay rights group was legal and not unconstitutional in the law of Botswana.