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    "id": 42078,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/42078/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 40,
        "legal_name": "Atanas Manyala Keya",
        "slug": "atanas-manyala"
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    "content": "(iii) Mr. Speaker, Sir, Section 39 of the Act states that: “All television stations shall provide sign language inset or subtitles in all newscasts and educational programmes, and in all programmes covering events of national importance.” Under this provision, media houses are expected to embrace sign language as an accessible format for communication to persons with hearing impairment. This provision is also entailed in the Bill of Rights of the new Constitution at Section 54(1)(d), where a person with disability is entitled to use sign language, Braille or other appropriate means of communication, and (e) of the section, to access materials and devices to overcome constraints arising from the person’s disability. It is encouraging to note that the National Assembly, as well as some privately sponsored television programmes, have already complied with the requirements of this provision. This notwithstanding, a lot of awareness creation is being done through workshops, seminars and the disability newsletters to media houses and other stakeholders to implement these requirements, and the NCPD is planning a major stakeholders’ meeting to sensitize the public and implementers on the same."
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