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    "id": 1052958,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Millie Odhiambo",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. In sub-clause (3), I was concerned about children, persons with disability and the elderly. I will deal with sub-clause (1). I beg to move: THAT, Clause 29 of the Bill be amended in sub-clause (1) by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph─ (a) the person may be subject to persecution on account of race, personal convictions, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, or for failure to conform to a retrogressive cultural practice. I seek to enhance the grounds upon which a person may be considered to be persecuted. I know that the grounds I am proposing are more expansive and are in line with decisions of the courts and the concluding remarks of the UN agency that monitors refugees’ rights. I seek, therefore, to include “non-conformity to retrogressive cultural practices” as one of the grounds. I move."
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