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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I oppose this Bill. The reason I oppose is that I can proudly say that I was one of the founders of the Constitution and the thinking of the framers of this Constitution was to ensure that we mainstream certain rights including women and men’s rights. That is why we need a gender commission. Even though Article 59 of the Constitution provides for a commission that can be split into three commissions, it was deemed necessary to have a gender commission specifically because if you do not do that, you end up having a small gender desk or gender initiatives by the Government that do not go to the root of the challenges that we face in the country relating to gender. On issues of gender, we can say that they affect every single aspect of our lives. Before I joined Parliament, I was doing a lot of work with the Government in different ministries as a consultant on mainstreaming gender, human rights and children’s rights in government policies and other issues. If you see the thinking and (inaudible) on our socialisation and psyche, unless you have a gender commission that is specifically dedicated to looking at issues on women rights – even though gender includes both men and women- we end up sacrificing the issues of women and gender. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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