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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Gladys stressed the point of women. We all expect participation in such a forum to help bring equality and ensure that we implement the law on the same. I want to encourage colleagues that it is important to ensure that we also comply with the international conventions on protection of rights as expected and pass appropriate legislation to give effect to the same international conventions. The UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and its protocols on trafficking in persons and smuggling of immigrants… We recently had cases of Libya and Yemen. In Libya, it was slave trade and abuse of rights of the people. In Yemen, it is like it was forgotten. People have been killed in Yemen. Women have been raped. Children have been killed. They are not able to live life as expected. So as parliamentarians, when we have these meetings we look at all these aspects of human rights and ensuring that we make contribution towards this. As part of the world community, as part of the international community, of course we have our interest as a country, our strategic interests must be protected by Members representing our country in those forums, particularly when it comes to strategic interest of our country. When we are there, we are not just there to represent Parliament but to look at the interest of our country, and to participate adequately in all the issues that arise. The other issue I want to talk about is our obligation, as I mentioned earlier: women’s participation in politics is very essential. Unfortunately, women largely remain underrepresented in politics in many countries, not just Kenya. We need to work towards reversing this. Other than the comment by the Leader of the Majority Party, which Hon. Gladys commented on, I think it is a good thing for us to move towards that direction to ensure that we not only comply with the law but also to get more women participate in politics. As parliamentarians, we commit to work towards fairer, smarter and more humane approach towards this, including all the actions that would be required to help our communities. I wanted to make quite a number of comments on this, but in a nutshell I wanted to say to Members that the IPU after its establishment and with its member states, in summary, is a union whose agenda mainly is peace and cooperation among the peoples of the world and for the establishment and respect of democracy."
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