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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "need to belabour the question of land. The Members are aware of how emotive the issue of land is and maybe we have laws that we have not respected. You will find that in our neighbourhoods somebody comes to build a factory that has emissions that are harmful to children. This is being done in residential areas and near rivers hence polluting them. A case in point is the Nairobi River. Members will appreciate the degradation and pollution in all our rivers and not just Nairobi River, because of passing through Industrial Area and residential areas, these have suffered a lot. Lastly, the policy action plan under Pillar Two of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, includes developing guideline tools for businesses on their duty to respect human rights, requiring businesses to adopt human right policies, encourage proactive disclosure by businesses on human rights impact and requiring businesses to cooperate with the Government agencies and other stakeholders in facilitating access to remedies for business related human rights violations. If a business violates the rights of its workers or the community, they will cooperate with Government agencies to ensure that the people whose rights have been violated have access to remedies which could include compensation for abuse of rights. The policy action plans on the three: on access to remedy includes promoting the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, strengthening the national legal aid program and creating awareness of the judicial, and non-judicial remedies available to victims of business-related human rights violations. As I mentioned, we are looking at the judicial and non-judicial remedies and that is why the three speak to the alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, that is, where corporates abuse the rights of communities. People necessarily do not have to go to court. They could engage in non-judicial processes and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to get remedy. The fourth and last chapter of this National Action Plan provides the implementation framework of the Policy. The chapter proposes the establishment of an inter-agency implementation committee to oversee implementation of the Policy. It further provides that the National Action Plan will be reviewed periodically to capture emerging issues in the business and human rights disclosures. I beg to move that this House adopt this Sessional Paper. Members can peruse it; it is available at the Table Office. You will see the work that went into the production of this Policy and how beneficial it is to our communities and to the business community in this country. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask my deputy, Hon. Owen Baya, to second."
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