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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kihika",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Wakarura Kihika",
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    "content": "individual parliaments. It help us move together as parliamentarians and also know what is going on across the world. The 139th IPU Assembly was held in Geneva in Switzerland. The Speaker of the Senate was the Chair of the Kenyan delegation which comprised both the Members of the National Assembly and the Senate. In the days that the Assembly took place, which was the 14th to 18th of October, quite a bit was discussed. The IPU Assembly has Standing Committees just like we have here in the House. Substantive issues are discussed in those Standing Committees. The Kenyan delegation participated in all the Standing Committees. We participated in the Peace on International Security Committee. Members participated in panels on Comprehensive Disarmament and Non-Proliferation of Arms. That is an important issue in the world. That is why I am talking about IPU really does deal with real time issues that are going on around the world. We, as parliaments, were able to come up either with legislations that sorts out some of problems around the world. We were be able to persuade those involved to either cut back or in some case, just not continue with the problem. Delegations are normally send to those countries so that the situation can be cured. There was a panel on Combating Sexual Violence in United States (US) peace keeping operations and beyond. This has also become a problem in some of the countries around the world where there were wars and sexual violence or there was instability. Sexual violence was a big issue such that the international community had to be involved to get this stopped because some governments were unwilling to stop those issues on their people. As a world community, then, it becomes necessary to raise our voices so that we are able to put pressure on those governments to stop those bad practices. There was also the Standing Committee on Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade. Some members of the Kenyan delegation also participated in that committee. Our delegation had ten Members of Parliament from both the National Assembly and the Senate. They would split between the different committees and they made substantive contributions to the Standing Committees. There was also a panel on Fair, Free Trade and Investment in achieving the Structural Development Programmes (SDGs). They discussed issues to do with economic equality, sustainable infrastructure, industrialization and innovation. As we all know one of the Big Four Agenda of Jubilee Government is industrialization. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some of these panels made presentations on the best practices of what other countries do to have economic growth and sustainable infrastructure. At the same time, promoting and establishing industries so that they can create jobs for their people through innovation. That just brings me back to what was being discussed in the Senate earlier today where we need to be more innovative in order to create more jobs for our youth given the high numbers of unemployment in the country. We also talked about sustainable infrastructure. I know that is also a very live issue here with the infrastructure that we have seen going on around the country. Currently, we are having debate on borrowing and whether it is important to continue borrowing so that we improve our infrastructure and spur our economic growth. Are we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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