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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Report that has been tabled on the Victim Protection Board. As a matter of statistics, the Victim Protection Board has been there for over 10 years. Based on the information available, it has actually been budgeted for over 10 years. However, because this particular Victim Protection Board is actually not autonomous, it depends on the goodwill of the Attorney- General’s Office (AG’s) and sometimes the political goodwill of whoever is in office. In addition, the operationalisation of the same has actually been stagnated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, while we were looking at cases on gender-based violence and on issues such as child trafficking, sometimes people are in court for such a long period of time and the victims are actually supposed to find a safe space, to be able to see the whole process go through. However, the Victim Protection Board is not operationalised as it is not an independent organisation or semi-autonomous as it still relies on certain offices. They were unable to deal with victims and give them the support that is required. In the ongoing demonstrations, nobody talks about women and girls that are out there. Every other time that we have demonstrations in the name of Mandamano, we have serious gender-based violence happening right now. We have women and girls being raped in the guise of demonstrations. In the past, the Victim Protection Board has actually tried to intervene in some of these scenarios. However, because of the lack of autonomy, as most of the time the budget was also being influenced by certain offices, they were unable to deal with these issues. While talking about compensation for those who have lost during demonstrations, most people think about the businessmen and women who have lost their properties and businesses. Nobody wants to talk about the gender-based violence that is ongoing. How The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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