Author: Global South Studies Series

By Shreyas Ernest Isaac
The COVID-19 Pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the hardest challenges that countries have had to face in recent human memory. If there is one word which has brought much hope to all of us in the last few years, it has to be the word 'vaccine'...

By Kevin T Sabu
The global warming-induced melting of Antarctic and Arctic glaciers and ice has a detrimental impact on not just the ecology but also the humanitarian setting as well.  Various geographically smaller island states (SIS) such as Maldives, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, etc...

By Jai Sharma
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa. Mali, despite being a poor, deeply indebted, landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa, possess significant bauxite, gold, iron ore, and phosphate reserves.

By Liza Gupta
In 2020, a study by the joint Indo-Pak management institute revealed contrasting lifestyles between the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (POK) (Dipanjan Roy, 2020). The study conducted by Professor Dheeraj Sharma from the Indian Institute of Management and Professor Farah Arif from Lahore Institute of Management Sciences disclosed that the people in POK were not satisfied and happy with their lives and homeland...

By Liza Gupta
Human rights are paramount to citizens and is a vital policy objective of international institutions and central governments. However, despite such importance granted to Human Rights, the world community and central government have failed to uphold the rights of Kashmiri Pandit (“KP”) community living in Kashmir in the 1990s. The year of 1989 marks ‘black year’ in the history of India...

By Yukti Panwar
There is a prominent presence of Vietnamese migrants in Cambodia due to historical reasons and  demand for labour in the construction sector. For Vietnamese women who have migrated to Cambodia, the sex industry (including massage parlours and dance halls) is an important sector of employment. Many of them are irregular migrants, which, along with their profession, adds on to their increased vulnerability and makes them a tempting subject of exploitation...

By Yukti Panwar
Around 39,000 child marriages occur every day around the world. If these trends persist, approximately 150 million girls will be married off by 2030, many against their will. Nine out of the ten countries with the highest rates of child marriage are in sub-Saharan Africa...

By Jai Sharma
Guatemala is home to an 18 million population with a GDP of USD 77.6 billion in 2020. It’s a Central American country south of Mexico, and is home to volcanoes, rainforests, and ancient Mayan sites...

By Siddharth Raghavan
2021 saw the highly transmissible Delta variant of the SARS CoV-2 raise the COVID-19 death toll to nearly 5 million and ultimately halt any path to economic stability that the world was hoping for...

By Mithuna Jayadev Unnithan
The latest economic partnership in the Indian subcontinent is the Trincomalee Oil Farm deal, which was signed between India and Sri Lanka on 6 January 2022...