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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I thank the delegation for a job well done. They came back with a good report to the House, at least to tell us what this forum is all about. We are happy to learn that this forum was purposely created to give women in political leadership room to ventilate on the issues that affect them. They went ahead to acknowledge many women leaders around the world and honoured them in a beautiful way. To me, that forum was more of role modeling because important leaders were called and honoured before a congregation of more than 400 participants. They gave their life experiences as leaders and that was a good thing. It was meant to create room for more women to enter into political leadership. Today as I was reading this Report, I came across a quote that; “empowering women is a smart investment and a human rights issue”. It is a smart investment because it will give back. It means that if we invest in women, that is a smart investment because at the end of the day it will give back to society. There is a saying that when you empower a woman, you have empowered the entire society. That is not just a saying but it is real. An example of Rwanda has been given as one of the successful countries in terms of women leadership. In the report, it has been indicated that Rwandan women receive antenatal care for free and because of the free antenatal care, 91 per cent of deliveries are done in health centres and that has contributed to reduction on mortality rate. Rwanda is one of the leading countries in terms of women leadership because 64 per cent of MPs are women. We just need to empower women and take care of their health and we will have a healthy women population and more women in leadership positions. In the forum, it is said that there were testimonials from over 70 heads of states printed and displayed somewhere on a notice board; all of them justifying why we should have more women in leadership. Over 70 heads of states and governments cannot keep displaying and making testimonials to justify why we should have more women if that was wrong in this world. I was a bit disappointed but I am now happy because my seniors are here. Initially when I looked round, I only saw women in this Chamber, except the Chair who definitely is in support of this particular Motion. I was wondering whether we do not hold this debate on women dear to our hearts. Many of our male counterparts are not here but I am happy Sen. Omogeni and our role model in politics, Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri, are here to support the women. Otherwise I was going to say how disappointing this is because a topic that touches on women leadership is on the Floor of this House but only ladies come to support it. We cannot walk alone; it has to be a joint venture. After all, we are the women who give birth to all men and women. So, they should be here to support us. We are not doing well as a country when it comes to women leadership. Even in this Senate, we are 22 out of 67 and that is not so bad but we can do better. We have The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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