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8M: we stop
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Doing the math and “creatively living”: from “updating” to the economic reorganization
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No one will be left unprotected? (II)
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No one will be left unprotected? (I)
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Economic debate in Cuba: first and second planes (I)
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The crisis associated with COVID-19 is linked to other pre-existing crises on global and national scales: economic, political, care, demographic...
Cuba: (Feminist) requests to political society and civil society in the face of COVID-19
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) got the first coronavirus alert from Wuhan, China. Since then we...
The pandemic does not discriminate; inequalities do: women cushioning the crisis
With COVID-19, the world is facing two interconnected but not identical realities: it exhibits and sharpens pre-existing inequalities and generates...
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In Cuba, that which will be the last state regulation regarding sexist violence is being discussed. So far, it is...
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Cuba joins the list of countries speaking about femicides. This was acknowledged by official sources at the end of last...
Women’s “special periods” in Cuba
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