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    "id": 1194474,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1194474/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "The ILO has been talking about child labour. Child labour is a travesty on human rights and it continues in many organisations. This Action Plan will guard against child labour. Children should be given an opportunity to go to school, complete school and seek employment. Child labour is a source of cheap of labour. Many organisations employ young people so that they can get cheap labour. Kenya is the second country to launch such an action plan. We need to protect our children from unscrupulous business people looking for cheap labour. This Action Plan has pillars that provide guidelines for businesses to promote human rights, provide judicial remedies and give individual communities an opportunity to defend their rights. There are communities in this country that live at the behest of big multinationals in the mining sector. Such multinationals do not care about environmental issues. People get respiratory diseases because of dust and dangerous gases, but they have nowhere to go. We are telling companies setting up factories here to look at the Action Plan so that they can protect the environment and people’s rights. A lot of major roads are being constructed today. Companies get murram and other materials from other places, but they leave huge excavations and they do not care about it. We hear of cases of children falling into and dying in such excavations. There is no recourse for the family who loses their loved ones. A person working in a factory may have his hand cut by a machine, but he has no remedy in law or in court. The pay for people working in some of these companies is shameful. Because we do not have an Action Plan to infuse human rights within business activities, the people suffer."
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