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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mlolwa",
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        "legal_name": "Jones Mwagogo Mlolwa",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No.1 of 2015 on the National Policy on Elimination of Child Labour, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, August 19th, 2015. I take this opportunity to give you the background of this Policy Paper. First, the Constitution of Kenya defines a child as an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years and protects children from child labour, which at times assumes other forms including slavery, servitude, forced labour and trafficking. Secondly, child labour is an engagement of a child in paid or unpaid work and all activities that are mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children. It involves work that deprives children of opportunities for schooling or participation in vocational and other training programmes. Children are not required to perform hazardous work and all worst forms of child labour. Thirdly, Kenya, as a member of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), has ratified ILO Convention No.138 on the minimum age of entry into employment which was adopted in 1973. In 2007, the minimum age of entry into employment in Kenya was 16 years. Fourthly, the country has also domesticated ILO Convention No.182 which has outlawed certain activities in which children below 16 years cannot work. Fifthly, elimination of all worst forms of child labour by 2020, establishment and maintenance of an up-to-date and reliable database on child labour, mainstream elimination of 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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