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    "id": 1091938,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to continue with moving my Bill. Yesterday I had the opportunity, even before I moved the Bill to its conclusion to first provide a background to the issues that occasioned the need for us to reform our inheritance laws. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just allow me to continue a little bit on that line of debate to look at some of the key issues that occasioned this. As I was saying yesterday, the most pressing obstacle to gender equality in Kenya is the issue of land, property and inheritance rights, the insufficient laws and the patriarchy that insubordinates women and certain marginalized communities. According to the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women as it was referred to then, widows in Africa irrespective of ethnic group are among the most destitute women in the region since they are mostly subjected to patriarchal customary practices. They are confronted with discrimination in inheritance rights, they lose social status and are marginalized. Human Rights Watch, 2013 reported that majority of women’s inheritance rights violations occur since they revolve around land and property- grabbing by the deceased’s person’s relatives. The Bill seeks to cure this because the Law of Succession (Cap. 160) was enacted in 1981, it does not conform with some of the more dynamic laws that have come into place including the Constitution of Kenya 2010. The importance of the Women’s Land Rights and meeting the implementation of the Constitution of Kenya, international and regional human rights obligations."
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