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    "id": 720980,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "enabling legislation that is not necessarily enabling, but rather seeks to countermand the very provisions of the Constitution. Nobody under the sun should face cruel and inhumane treatment. Most of the laws and human rights treaties that have been passed under the UN have a clause on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The latest is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPWDs). I think it is Article 18 that speaks to this. There is also the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which speaks about this matter. Other relevant conventions are the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention against Torture. The twin-talk approach where you have a stand-alone convention and specific clauses in the various other convections is an emphasis that nobody should be discriminated. It is because of this that I would want to call upon our friendly allies, including the US Government led by President Donald Trump, that we would want to see an international regime where the US Government does not seek to condone corruption, inhuman treatment and torture. This is because when you remove yourself from such international treaties thereof in the name of sovereignty, then the citizenry that may befall under your own international obligations in relation to security may be subject to torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we know that in Africa, our people have continued to suffer because of poor governance. We know, for example, that even the seat of the African Human and People’s Right Commission in The Gambia has been subject to ridicule. It is only the other day that an incumbent President, Yahya Jammeh, was forced into exile, so that the democratically elected President Adama Barrow could take over the reins of leadership. We need to lead by example having known the histories of our own forefathers in fighting for Independence and having known the struggles of those who participated in the second liberation of this country. We cannot forget the many struggles across Africa of the people seeking better governance. We remember the Rwanda genocide, the apartheid regime in South Africa and other jurisdictions. We owe it unto humanity not just to pass legislation, but also to breathe life into this kind of legislations so that nobody goes through that which happened before. In terms of having international customary law, otherwise known as the Pacta Sunt"
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