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    "content": "clearly mitigate the issues of persons with disabilities together with inefficiency, implementation of existing legislation has been a major hindrance to the nature and quality of service delivery. Mr. Speaker, Sir, over the years, a great many concerns towards persons with disabilities have been raised converging into now the all important United National Conventions on the Rights of Persons with disabilities. The convention endorses defence and safeguards equal enjoinment of all human rights and liberty by persons with disabilities. The World Programme of Action to implement the UN Convention is a strategy with a clear cut purpose to secure disability prevention, rehabilitation and equalisation of opportunities. Numerous negative encounters by person with disabilities are still persisting on a wide scale. Despite such great efforts, human rights for person with disabilities are also under-affirmed with equitable access to resources obstructed by lack of responsive policies and efficient implementation arrangements. Access to essential services such as hospitals, roads, malls and educational institutional facilities among others infrastructures are in many instances out of the way. This exposes old and unproductive thinking that has yet to appreciate the peculiar needs of persons with disabilities. It is very problematic to comprehend the scale of the difficulties the persons with disabilities undergo in full. The numbers of people with disabilities are globally an estimated one billion, but without proper country practicable data details on the type of disability. On the nature of acquisition and even geographical spread, no functional service delivery is assured. The joining agents of poverty, disability and suffering are nothing. The problem is deep rooted in the world as is now structural violence, systematic customs in which public structures hurt and draw back persons with disabilities in an elusive manner with great danger of causing disability or extending it. We need to imagine how emergencies, natural or human driven, which usually impact the foundation of human existence mainly to persons with disabilities who have special needs. Their little resilience can be reduced to void. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I continue to persuade the House to support this amendment, it is not possible to exhaust here the host of issues facing persons with disabilities which gradually undermine inclusion, enjoyment of fundamental rights and confidence. The persons with disabilities (Amendment) Bill, (Senate Bill No. 24 of 2014), straight forward purpose is to enhance the quality of lives of person with disabilities acknowledging that it is possible to overcome disability. In the new Kenyan Constitution which was promulgated in 2010, Article 21 in particular, gives important obligation to state organs to protect and promote the rights and fundamental freedom in the Bill of Rights. It mandates all state organs to address vulnerable group’s needs extending to person with disabilities. Furthermore, Article 54 of the Kenyan Constitution recognizes specific rights related to treatment with dignity and access to important social amenities and infrastructure, including educational facilities and communication facilities among others. These are matters that are also well articulated in the United Nations Convention (UNC). The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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