Folade Mutota

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Folade Mutota
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Mutota in 2017
OccupationsPolitician, arms control expert and women's rights activist
Organization(s)Women's Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD)
Women's Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD)

Folade Mutota is a Trinidadian politician, arms control expert, and women's rights activist. She is one of the three founders of the Women's Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) and coordinates the Caribbean Coalition for Development and the Reduction of Armed Violence (CDRAV).

Biography

Mulata is an arms control expert and coordinates the Caribbean Coalition for Development and the Reduction of Armed Violence (CDRAV). [1] [2] She is one of the three founders of the Women's Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) and serves as executive director. [3] [4] She has also spoken out against on fat shaming and discrimination. [5]

Mutota served as a Temporary Independent Senator in the Senate (Trinidad and Tobago) during the 11th Republican Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. She made her maiden contribution on The Firearms (Amendment) Bill (2019). [6]

In 2025, she contributed to Public Policy Making, Gender, and Human Security in the Caribbean. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Folade Mutota". Forum on the Arms Trade. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  2. ↑ Doughty, Melissa (16 June 2025). "WINAD wants women to be part of anti-gun violence action". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  3. ↑ "Women's Institute hosts forum on gun control". Trinidad Express Newspapers. 17 June 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  4. ↑ Doughty, Melissa (1 July 2025). "Historian, women and gender groups explore causes of increased violence in women". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  5. ↑ "In the News: DON'T FAT SHAME ME". WINAD. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "Folade Mutota". Trinidad and Tobago Parliament. Archived from the original on 21 March 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  7. ↑ Mutota, Folade; Mc Fee, Deborah N. (2025), Mc Fee, Deborah N.; Rogers, Tracie A. (eds.), "Displacing the Masculine Protagonist: Women, the Arms Trade Treaty, Human Security and Gun Violence in Trinidad and Tobago", Public Policy Making, Gender, and Human Security in the Caribbean, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 87–105, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-81592-8_5, ISBN   978-3-031-81592-8 , retrieved 8 January 2026
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