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    "id": 592180,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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 rise to support the Bill from a human rights perspective. We must protect our workers, especially those who do manual labour. One of the things I like about the Bill is that it provides a limit on the weights that would be carried by manual labourers. I would urge the Member to look at the proposed new Section 29C(1) and (2) because the provisions therein appear to contradict each other. On the one hand it provides for a maximum weight based on physiological characteristics and on the other hand it says the maximum weight will be 50 kilogrammes. One of the other reasons why I support this Bill is because it protects pregnant and lactating mothers. I did a lot of work on human rights-based approach to programming with different organisations and this is part of mainstreaming human rights and gender issues. The other issue for which I want to congratulate the Member is the very bold provisions excluding children from carrying any weight. Under the Children Act, we are not as bold. I will be bringing comprehensive amendments to the Children Act that will ensure that at least this time we are very bold about the issue of child labour. We had made provisions which do not pronounce--- I know we are a very poor country, but we have not made very bold provisions that completely exclude children from labour. I congratulate the Member for this Bill. I support it."
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