Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 859572,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/859572/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 149,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 434,
        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
        "slug": "james-nyikal"
    },
    "content": "that we have to look at and consider supporting women. Socially, we know the perceptions about women out there. The women here will tell you the perceptions about them during campaigns. They are normally called names. Even in this House we have referred to women in terms that I cannot use. Again, they have been exposed to violence. Even biologically, women take a lot of load from the society; talk of child- bearing and child-rearing. Women are not bearing children and rearing them for themselves, rather they are doing it for the society. That is the biggest asset of the society. Is it not justifiable that people who take such a load are actually appreciated by them getting affirmative action? To that extent, Hon. Speaker, I support this Bill. Even if we left it at that, as a country and a nation, we have actually acceded to internal conventions, agreements and treaties that bind us to bring this effect. We have the UN Convention on Human Rights to which we are party. We have the Beijing Declaration to which we are also party to. We are also party to the Commission for the Status of Women; and, the Commission for Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against women. Our own Constitution, under Article…"
}