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Santanina “Nina” Tillah Rasul, the country’s first Muslim woman senator, passed away on Nov. 28 at the age of 94, the Senate announced on Friday.
“It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of former Senator Santanina Tillah Rasul, a trailblazer, legislator, educator, and beloved mother and grandmother, on Nov. 28, 2024. ‘Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un,’ To God we belong and to Him we shall return,” Senate spokesperson Arnel Bañas said in a statement.
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Rasul served as senator from 1987 to 1992 and from 1992 to 1995 and authored eight laws as chairperson of the Senate Committee on Civil Service and Government Recognition and the Committee on Women and Family Relations.
Among the laws she authored were Republic Act (RA) 7192 or the Women in Development and Nation Building Act, which paved the way for the entry of female cadets to the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), and RA 6949 declaring March 8 as National Women’s Day.
