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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on 30th March, 2007, Kenya signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which entered into full force in 2008 and ratified it on 5th May, 2008. The purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all people with disabilities. The Convention recognises and promotes the use of Sign Language. It makes it clear that Sign Languages are equal in status to spoken languages. It, therefore, obligates state parties to facilitate the learning of sign language and promote the linguistic identity of the deaf community. The world needs to know that in walking the talk, salient sessions of these rights are enshrined in the Constitution of Kenya, in Articles 7 (1) (b), 54 and 120. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in fulfilling this constitutional mandate, Sen. (Prof) Margaret Kamar and I have sponsored the Kenyan Sign Language Bill (2021). The Bill seeks to"
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