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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to indicate that whenever we have cases of displacements, the persons who are most affected are women, children, persons with disability and also young persons. It is, therefore, very important that this Bill is actually providing very extensively for the protection of women, children and special interest persons. One of the things that the Bill has not mentioned is the way persons of mixed marriages are affected in instances of displacement. I know I sit in this Committee. One of the things I would be suggesting for amendment is that we include persons of mixed marriages in terms of displacement because they are usually torn apart. We have cases where you find a Kalenjin who is married to a Kikuyu. In situation of displacement, he or she is not acceptable in either of the communities. This creates a problem, especially for women and children. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to indicate that I am happy the Bill recognizes that we must do everything possible, as a country to stop instances of displacement by creating a lot of awareness and seeking peaceful co-existence between communities. Indeed, one of the things that we hope the National Cohesion and Integration Commission can do a lot more is talking to communities to learn to co-exist with each other. I am also happy the Bill recognizes Security Council Resolution 1296 that is applicable to the protection of civil population during armed conflict. Much more also the Security Council Resolution 1325 applicable to the protection of women and their roles in armed conflict, including their participation in decision making and administration of programmes in respect to their safety, welfare, health, meal, sanitary care, reproductive rights, amongst others. We know during displacement that we saw in 2007, many women had a lot of problems relating to productive rights and health care and problems relating to sanitation that a lot of the humanitarian organizations were not able to deal with. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would want to indicate, however, that to strengthen this Bill, I know that some of these issues that I want to speak to should actually fit very well in other documents, say, for regulations, but because as a country, we tend to forget and sometimes because we do not use what is in the law, I would want to suggest that some of these things need to be provided here. Indeed, I have actually sponsored a Bill, the Victim Protection Bill, that is almost a sister to this Bill because it talks about issues of victimization. One of the things that I had provided is a step by step approach in cases of victimization. I would I want to suggest that this Bill also provides a step by step approach in case of displacement and one that will provide that in case of displacement. How does the Government set up centres? How do people know where these centres are? What are the security deployment in terms of numbers and gender? What kind of persons would be deployed in those sorts of places, for instance, providing by law that we need to provide counselors, deploy lawyers, nutritionists, especially because of the issue of persons living with HIV/AIDS? We need to deploy persons with special skills, especially for persons with disabilities. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to deploy humanitarian workers to document certain critical information especially immediately upon arrival at camps. Such will include the means and direction that a person used in arriving at that place. This is especially in case of unfortunate demise immediately thereafter, any known names in"
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