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    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion. I support the Motion. The Report was very well done and articulated. I managed to be part of the delegation towards the second week of the conference through the County of Nairobi. This was prior to the handshake and so, there was a bit of refusal by Members from the Opposition, but I was there and I was grateful. As a country, we participate in so many conferences worldwide and there is always hue and cry from the public every time they see us going trips. But this is a trip that women took, sat, talked and learnt from one another. When we come back to our country, we make fantastic reports and file them and we talk about the issues that were discussed. I agree with the Member who talked about the fact that there are single mothers in Kenya and this should have been discussed. Whether you are a single mother or a married woman, all women are affected in this country at the moment, especially if you look at the demolitions that are going on. We talked about economic empowerment at the CSW. We talked about development and human rights and they are covered in that Report, but where are human rights now in our country when we are demolishing kiosks that are run by women? We are demolishing houses that women and their children, the most vulnerable citizens, live in. I am not saying that we do not need the roads. I am not saying that we do not need to right what is wrong in terms of corruption. For instance, if you look at the way Nakumatt Ukay was demolished, I know women who work in a salon there, who support their families from there. I know restaurants and jewellery shops. There are so many women who work there, but when you look at the social media, it is like we are really a man-eat-man society. We are so happy to see the demolitions and we are thinking it is right, but it is wrong. It is wrong because there are simple, humane and legal ways of doing things. We cannot have a Government and be a banana republic. If Nakumatt Ukay was constructed at the wrong place and we needed to bring it down like any other structures in this country - and I support the Government in what it wants to do - we have to think about women and the promises we made to our women and the youth. This country has a very high unemployment rate. If we have a high unemployment rate and people have tried to look for jobs, then we go for conferences like this and say that our country is forward thinking, respects human rights and empowers women, it is not right. We come back, table a report and support it yet our hands are tied and we see things are going wrong. Today, I spent my morning at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a French donor-driven project in Kenya. They gave records of women and children that they attended to in 2017. They provided ambulance service in Eastlands for 5,600 women and children. They also dealt with 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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