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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Losiakou",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "Other issues they look at that affect the world is to consider questions of international interest, concern and experience with a view of developing legislation that is more or less related to the world. One example that we were given when we were in Geneva in one of the Committees, which is in this Report, is to deliberate on the balance between freedoms and security, particularly in telephone and electronic world. People were asking: “To what extent would government, for example, introduce laws that will monitor what we say in our mobile phones and to what extent will that then not jeopardise security?” Most people in the world want nobody to record them because that affects freedoms and privacy. However, one of the questions under the mandate of IPU was: To what extent should we legislate so that when parliaments all over the world go to their countries – like Kenya or other people go to their countries – they legislate on issues that govern the whole world? If we do that we can have this debate so that people do not think that Kenyans are doing it very differently from the world. They will actually know that we are actually doing things better than what those people are doing in the world. Another issue of consideration which we deliberated when we were in those countries and which is in this Report that I presented to this House is the issue to deal with promotion of human rights, particularly human rights of parliamentarians. If there is a problem that happens to a parliamentarian then the question is where do they report? Yes, they can report to security institutions but sometimes that can also be limiting. So, what happens is that members then report to the IPU and then the IPU picks it. There were some deaths in this country. I remember in one of the conferences of this IPU in Vietnam, I was called to represent our parliament in terms of what happened to those parliamentarians. So, if something happens to a parliamentarian all over the world, it finds itself to IPU then IPU takes it as a stronger institution to represent that honourable member even if from Kenya. As I said, I was asked about the issues that happened to some of the parliamentarians in Kenya some time back, which I reported on behalf of our Parliament. That happens in the whole world. If there are problems in other countries or continents, they find themselves in IPU and IPU picks it at a higher level. They also deliberate on issues on better working experience of parliamentarians. How can a parliamentarian be facilitated to do very well in terms of his/her work as provided for in many constitutions? We also realised that even in that one, Kenya is doing very well in terms of facilitation of its Members, including provision of staff. This IPU is very good. People will learn that our 2010 Constitution is one of the best in the world. We have staff. Some other The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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