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    "id": 1226325,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1226325/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Luckily enough, mine is working. I want to ask my colleague the Chairman as he asks for supplementary information, to please add this question. Sexual harassment is not only confined to tea farms in the agricultural sector, but cuts across the entire workforce where women seek work. What is the Ministry doing to sensitize women, whether affected or not, to be courageous enough and report the cases to the labour officers? Keeping quiet only damages and entrenches the practise. If the women can come out boldly and complain and stand up for their rights, we will eliminate those sexual violence cases. Occasionally, I receive complaints that so and so has refused to employ me because I have not accepted his advances, which is a very demeaning and humiliating exercise. What is the Ministry doing to sensitize women and build capacity to ensure that women speak loudly on the same? Finally, Hon. Speaker, we have 47 County Women Representatives in this House. Where are their voices? Where is the combined and concerted voice in this spirit of the rampant cases of sexual harassment amongst women workers in this country? 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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