Jessica N. Mbalu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I donate one minute to the Member for Kuria West, one minute to Hon. Otiende and another minute to Hon. Cecily Mbarire. view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is one Member who just wants to say he supports. He wants to go on record. He is Hon. Marselino. Please give him half a minute. view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you. I can see the Members really want you to put the Question. So, I want to take my two or three minutes. Allow me to reply to the Motion on the construction of post-trauma care facilities for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. I also thank the Members who have contributed to the Motion. Around 26 Members have contributed to the Motion with all of them supporting, apart from Hon. Lekumontare who seemed not to have understood the Motion and the need for special care for the gender-based violence victims. It came out very ... view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: availability of doctors. Legal help will be given from the trauma centres. It will help in treating of emotions. It is a temporary care measure for the victims. It is also a centre for the survivors to have some time for healing. As you are aware - and that is why I tabled the Motion - in Kenya, we do not have a centre that takes care of that, apart from the one in Kilifi. It is Government-constructed and does not meet the standards. Most of the shelters are constructed by NGOs and individuals. This Motion seeks to urge the ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, aware that every person has a right to freedom and security which includes the right not to be subjected to any form of violence from either public or private sources; recognising the crucial role of women in the preservation of African values based on the principles of equality, peace, freedom, dignity, justice, solidarity and democracy; determined to ensure that the rights of women are promoted, realised and protected in order to enable them to enjoy fully all their human rights; recalling that international laws and conventions such as The Convention on Elimination ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: We are urging the Government, we need a resolution of some of the Motions that we passed in this House. I must also pronounce myself that I will be bringing an amendment to propose a change to the Gender Based Violence (GBV) Act to ensure that even as we do Motions, we make laws in the House. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: As a background, sexual and gender based violence is an umbrella of any harmful act that is perpetrated against person’s will. It is based on socially ascribed gender differences between men and women. The nature and the extend of specific GBV vary across cultures, countries, regions and examples of this include rape, sexual exploitation, false prostitution, issues of domestic violence, forced or early marriages that we experience in our country and harmful tradition practices such as the famous FGM. As we speak to this we have pupils and students from schools that are going through such harassments. Such acts of ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: According to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) reports, domestic violence stands out as one of the most prevalent forms of GBV. Violence occasioned by male partners in relationships…When I speak I refer to both male and female gender. Hon. Kioni can also testify that men suffer quietly. However, there are cases that have been reported and I want to give statistics. About 70 per cent is about wife battering. I am a wife. I do not want to say that I have been battered or not, but I want to speak for other women who are battered ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, 70 per cent of reported cases is about wife battering. I understand that 85 per cent of it is about cultures. In Kenya an estimated 45 per cent of women aged 15 to 49 years have experienced either physical or sexual violence. The National Crime Research Centre provides a clear picture. It indicates that the centre has supported over 21,341 survivors of SGBV of whom 56 per cent are women, 36 per cent are girls, three per cent are men and five per cent are boys. These cases mostly affect women; or is it that men ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: We have legislative policies that we have made in this Parliament. Members of the 11th Parliament are aware of some the laws that we passed, thanks to the National Assembly that has been doing a very good job in trying to ensure that such laws that were not in our Constitution at the time of promulgation are now there to take care of the GBV. view