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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "whenever families of distraught domestic workers sought assistance to locate and repatriate victims of torture, including transportation of bodies of those who sadly succumbed to death. It is against this backdrop that the petitioners are seeking urgent intervention of this House to: (i) Cause the Ministry of Labour, in consultation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to provide the number and details of Kenyan citizens engaged in domestic labour in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other Persian Gulf countries from 2013 to 2021; (ii) Cause the Ministry of Labour, in consultation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to provide a record of the number of deaths of Kenyan domestic workers in the said countries, causes of death, including those associated with mistreatment by employers; (iii) Intervene to cause the Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to urgently audit the conditions of Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, and repatriate those who are being involuntarily held in servitude without the option of accessing their travel documents to return home or seek alternative decent employment; (iv) Cause the Ministry of Labour to provide a list of recruitment companies or agencies that are involved in exporting Kenyan domestic labour to the Gulf States; status of their registration and conditions, including commitments on the protection of employees from potential abuse by employers; and (v) Intervene to compel the Government to formulate and implement policies that are deterrent to the inhumane working conditions bedeviling Kenyan domestic workers in the Gulf in order to secure their right to life, dignity, reasonable working conditions and freedom from slavery, servitude and forced labour, among other rights and fundamental freedoms. Hon. Members, having determined that the matters raised by the petitioners are well within the authority of this House, I order that, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.227(1), this Petition be committed to the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. The Committee is required to consider the Petition and report its findings to the House and to the petitioners in accordance with Standing Order No.227(2). Let us have the Member for Kibra."
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