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    "id": 56384,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/56384/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Shaban",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Human rights are women rights and women rights are human rights. It is very important for us to go ahead now and pass this Bill, which has come out openly to make sure that women enjoy their rights as women and as human beings and in the best way that their anatomy has allowed them. It is true that women suffer a lot. First of all, they are denied the enjoyment that they are supposed to enjoy. As a Government, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development has gone out and started sensitizing elders who have been behind some of these problems. The elders in some of the communities even have forced old women who given birth to big sons who can marry, to undergo this cultural practice. They are told they are not women enough to marry their girls off or even to allow their sons to marry. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Bill will require a bit of fine- tuning to make it more acceptable. The issue of the medical practitioners and midwives should be addressed properly because when women are delivering babies, sometimes, they are subjected to a certain cut which is necessary to open the path for the babies to be able to come through. My remarks are very few. Article 10 of Part 3 talks about the protection of women and girls from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM); (b) provides support services to victims of FGM and (c) to undertake public education and sensitize the people of Kenya on the dangers and adverse effects of FGM. This part (c) is very important. We are working with the Njuri Ncheke to help us stop FGM where it is being practiced. The Njuri Ncheke has been very helpful in eradicating this vice. We are also working with Kuria elders. We are also working with other elders in other communities where this cultural practice has been going on in order to stop it. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support."
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