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    "id": 824286,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kandara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Alice Wahome",
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        "legal_name": "Alice Muthoni Wahome",
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    "content": "There is also a recent case where another man in Ukambani, eastern region, battered his wife so badly and there were people recording the violence. Indeed, we should congratulate the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for moving swiftly, together with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), to take these cases for prosecution. We should go further and arrest the people who record such violence. It is abnormal to watch somebody being violated and then you circulate the video. The violator is alone yet there are several people watching. The culture of violence against women was noted in this particular session and deplored by the participants. States were asked to take action. Therefore, I recognise what the Government is doing. We have seen something peculiar in terms of the DPP moving with speed in those last bad cases and prosecution being taken. We also hope that the Judiciary will look at the matters through a gender perspective lens. There was the case of widowhood, economic empowerment and poverty eradication for widows. Maybe we could also talk about widowers, but this was a women conference. Widowhood is another challenge both in terms of political, economic and social order. An achievement of empowerment by widows who are left with very little or nothing in terms of wealth or property owned by their husbands is crucial. Widowhood is inevitable yet there are neglected gender issues which condemn over 300 million widows and more than 500 million of their children to poverty. They represent 16 per cent of the world’s population. They are sentenced to a life of misery and trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty. That was noted. 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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