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    "content": "displacement from your normal surroundings and locality that you have been used to for a very long time because you are either going for green pastures elsewhere where you want to eke a living or you are looking for survival in the area where you reside. We have seen it over a period of time and it varies from one country to another. Africa is one place where migration can only be remembered for its painful effect. People lose their loved ones, close relatives and longtime friends either because of wrong governance structures that exist in that country or because of the vendetta that has been created against those people. The IPU in its own mandate through the General Assembly in New York is able to put together these experiences. There are a number of people who have perished in their small boats in North Africa when trying to migrate through the sea to Europe to look for jobs and opportunities or even run away from the tyrants of the governance structure that has created mayhem in their home countries. People perish, disappear and even become moribund. Their human rights elements are destroyed and they do not look like human beings. I read today that a boat that had people from the border of Somalia who were crossing over to Yemen capsized and killed many people. This is part of the population of that migration group that is going across. I have always found the amount of budget being availed to tackle this problem difficult. I want to thank our team that went there. IPU has always been in the United Nation’s (UN) system, and I understand how these things operate. The IPU is a union of parliamentarians from respective countries who in one way or the other have had an experience on this issue of migration. One of the things that we want to be firm on as a Government is that we want to return the dignity of the human race to where it belongs. Therefore, enough resources must be put in place to bring back the dignity of the human race to where it belongs. Secondly, there should be a legal framework that is able to foresee or husband the process of how these individuals move from one country to another so as to see that they are treated in a humane manner in the country where they have sought refuge. That is an important part of it and they should not be treated as another lot of people without concern as to whether they survive or not. It is very depressing when you see the enforcement group of people coming to do what they do and trying to create difficulties for people to survive in some of these areas. I want to commend the IPU delegation. One area where we can strengthen the international oversight over this migration issue is through our parliamentary systems. Therefore, once the message of governance and the bill of rights of the people are recognized, we must put in place sanctions that will deal firmly with the people who have gone against the norms that are required internationally. There is no better place to do that other than through this consultative process at the IPU and the UN system because we have a full-fledged department of migration in the UN system which has a clear budget. Every country contributes to that budget through their nominal contribution to UN activities and it is important that we do this. People move or migrate from one country to another because the conditions are very awkward in the country where they are migrating from. We need to rein in on 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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