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    "id": 1276549,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1276549/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "I strongly support the Motion by my brother, Hon. Brighton Yegon. The childcare programme proposed, especially after the fourth year, is one that has been recommended and looked at everywhere in the world. As Kenyans, we are always the first to go and sign the so- called United Nations declaration on this and that. In 2020, the United Nations Rules on Treatment of Women Prisoners and their Children was signed by us. It was never rectified. We just signed. We all signed and did nothing about it. We also signed the African Charter on Rights and Welfare. If put together, those rules are very important. Children of prisoners, either men or women, mother or father, suffer emotional distress and stigma. Those whose parents are in prison are vulnerable and are highly invisible group that is exposed to very many other things. They are exposed to sexual harassment and name calling, and their whole spirit is broken. The spirit of such a child is already broken when they see their mother incarcerated. The child’s spirit is further broken with stigma when they live with their mother in prison. Their rights remain unacknowledged in our criminal system. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you are a lawyer. The rights of children are never considered when judges give sentences. Sometimes children are not even brought out. They are immediately taken to children’s homes, where they are further traumatised and misused. Such 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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