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    "id": 740949,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Chairlady. Rights are specific things which define people. Rights are what make you make a claim or not make one, knowing where you stand or where you do not stand. It is a definitive character. If you relegate rights to regulations, regulations are inferior bodies of law from statute. If you want to allow somebody to have certain things that he or she can call a right, you put it in a statute law. If you put it in a regulation, it becomes inferior to the statute law. If the Chair and the Committee want to create refugee status and the process by which this issue is determined, then the best thing to do is to give it the value of a statute law. It may look like over-legislation, but you are giving it more power so that when you are making this determination, you have it in a statute law, but not have it in a regulation. There is the issue of over-legislation. We have always said that legislation is better than nothing. If something does not harm, it makes it pretty clear, so that a refugee knows where he is. It does not harm if you have one or two more clauses in a legislation just because it makes some piece of an issue clearer."
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