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Going critical: Iran’s nuclear programme

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The Government's Response to the Pandemic?

The mitu movement in the west was a very bottom up movement with lots of social organization. The government quickly tried to dampen down this on line debate, made the metu hashtag effectively one that was off limits and prevented women from organizing. It certainly doesn't want to upset the traditional patriarchal social order there is a strong sense within the commonist party that the role of women is to support the family and to support society in a caring way. And i think that was rather telling when shijim ping spoke about gender equality at the u.N.

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