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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will try and go with speed. First of all, I want to thank the Leader of Majority Party for bringing this Bill. I want to say, at the outset, that I support it because it is a very progressive Bill. I am speaking as the Chairperson of Parliamentarians for Global Action and the Parliamentarians Caucus on Children. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have worked most of my life on issues of human rights, especially focusing on women and children. That is why I find this law very progressive. I just want to inform hon. Members who are worried about how progressive this law is and who are concerned that it is giving too many rights, that there can never be too many human rights. It is always better to err on the side of good than to lean too much on the side of wrong. Therefore, I think this is one of the very progressive Bills that have been introduced in this House and even if I bring amendments, I am likely to bring them in terms of addition and not subtraction. I will consider this as a sister Bill to a Bill I brought to this House, which is the Victim Protection Act. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the Victim Protection Act, it deals with a lot of the concerns especially those that were spoken to by hon. Gumbo; that you have a person who has done so much wrong and yet, we giving them a lot of rights. I was concerned before that even if you look at the Constitution, it tends to provide a lot of rights for persons who are detained, accused or convicted much more than we protect the rights of victims of crime. Now that we already have a law on victims of crime, I am very happy to support this. I am also happy because it also gives effect not only to our 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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