Samira Gutoc (born on December 19, 1974, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) is a civic leader and former lawmaker.
Gutoc was the former representative for the women sector in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Regional Legislative Assembly. She was also a former member of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, but resigned in 2017 due to a rape joke by Duterte as well as his martial law declaration in Mindanao.
She ran for senator under the Liberal Party-allied Otso Diretso slate in 2019 but lost. | Rappler
Safe re-opening of schools and transition to face-to-face classes
Ensure that quality internet is available to students and work to provide subsidies to ensure they can keep up in their classes (i.e., load or laptop subsidies)
Integrate Human Rights and Peace Education into basic and secondary education curriculum
Demand that campaigns declare online campaign expenditures beyond their official social media accounts (i.e., influencers engaged, unofficial groups or pages tapped, etc.)
Seeking climate change accountability from better developed, high-pollutant countries
Pass an Alternative Mining Act in accordance with human rights norms, standards, and obligations
Decriminalizing Abortion
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