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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to air my views on this grave matter which has been around for years and no solution has been found. Women suffer a lot in silence because they feel ashamed of getting help and many are dying in their hearts from the harassment that they go through. Harassment starts with just staring at a woman and this makes her so uncomfortable. Somebody just watching her and everywhere she goes his eyes are on her. Touching or somebody winking at her is harassment. Maybe, the men who do this never realise how harassing it is. Just staring, touching and winking at her is harassment. We need to know the definition of sexual harassment and abuse. Women who are abused or raped cannot talk because the trauma and embarrassment is very high. Our society is such that women are seen as sex objects. That whenever a woman wants something, she must offer some favours. If she wants a job or promotion, she must sleep with a man. Everything is sleeping and women are harassed and victimised. People do not think that a man is at fault and is the perpetrator of those vices. They tend to turn around and say that women are the ones who are exposing themselves to those vices; which is not true. Women are simply harassed and so helpless because they do not know where to report. If they report, they never receive help. So, my contribution is that we should teach everyone in our society that women should be respected, just like men. There should be no harassment. Nowadays, the modern way of communication is social media and there should be some break from this. Pictures of women are created using what they call ‘photoshop’. Your face is put on somebody else’s body and you do not know who did so. Someone else does photoshop with your photo and then the whole world starts talking about you. This is terrible. As politicians, we campaign negatively against women and yet, we are talking about sexual harassment. Women in politics are harassed when they campaign against men. They contest innocently against a man and when he wins, they go home. If a woman wins, the men take it seriously and abuse her sexually thus making her feel so small as if she does not deserve that 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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