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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": "I support those who have echoed the fact that we need to relook at our laws. Besides putting more punitive penalties in our laws, it is also important that we introduce clauses to protect victims and encourage them to report those issues. They should feel safe when they report cases of harassment. They should not be threatened with being sacked or being punished further. It is a sad issue. Some victims of harassment undergo a lot of trauma. Some of them even fall into depression. In some cases, some get infected with Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) as a result of forced sex. They get degenerative diseases or unwanted pregnancies. They go through a lot. We must look at the matter holistically. Besides just looking at harassment, how do we even deal with its impact? How do we support those victims? That takes me to the other aspect that my colleagues have also touched on. Cyber bullying is another area that we must look into. What you do in your bedroom must be respected. Women of this country must be respected. We are seeing a trend where leaders and senior members of Government are being targeted by what I would call “mad men”. I can only call them mad men or fools because when they have a relationship with someone, and have agreed and spent time together, they embarrass the other person. Why is it that it is the woman who is always embarrassed? We must come up with laws with huge penalties to put such characters behind bars, so that we deter that practice from continuing. We have seen videos trending. There is another one trending today. It might be you tomorrow. As leaders, we must do something about it. People’s privacy must be respected. Women of this country must be respected. For how long will they be embarrassed? I can only imagine what their families and children feel. I can only imagine what their friends and everyone else thinks when they show up in the kinds of pictures that we have been seeing. It is not something to smile about. In this age of technology, we are not even sure whether those are real pictures. It could be a photoshop. Who can be sure that those pictures are real? Who can say for sure that, that was the person that they were trying to portray? Hon. Members, it is time we took action."
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