https://youtu.be/dJVC8fYhJf0 Farmers in India have been protesting against three farm acts passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. But what exactly is going on? Narrated by Talha Islam and illustrated by Pearl Hong, Asia Events Officer, this video gives a short introduction to the origins and ongoing developments in the protests. Narrated by … Continue reading Farmers at War: A Short Introduction to India’s Agricultural Plight
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https://youtu.be/fILJNeswgOE Volunteering tourism - "voluntourism" - might be a popular choice among some gap year students, but could it be doing more harm than good? Based on an interview with Jasper Friedrich, MSc Political Theory student at the University of Oxford, South America Events Officer Jasmine Alexander walks us through the origins and issues of … Continue reading Voluntourism: Gaining More Than You Give
In 2008, the unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip reached 71%. The Palestinian economy is endemically weak, in part due to its split geography between Gaza and the West Bank, and its challenges have been exacerbated by political instability, conflict, and the COVID-19 crisis. In this episode, our Middle East Events Officer, Shariq Haidery, speaks … Continue reading “Stumbling Blocks to Palestinian Development” with Prof. Bashar Malkawi
Photo by Ivan Bandura Growing up in a western European country, it is hard to avoid the terms ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ as a framework for viewing the entire world. A brief online search reveals dozens of articles from the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Economist and other news sources using this language, and here at Oxford … Continue reading Developed and Developing: A Critique of the Way We See the World
Latin America has been one of the worst-hit regions in the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 14 million diagnosed cases. Media images of cardboard coffins and bodies being left in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador spread throughout the world. However, the UN has declared there is another pandemic in the region lingering in the shadows – … Continue reading María-Noel Vaeza: Violence Against Women
Latin America has a long and rich history of feminist collective action, from the Madres de Plaza de Mayo who campaigned against the Argentinian dictatorship government following the disappearances of family members, to current feminist movements protesting against the lack of action being taken to stop femicide in the region. In contexts of violence and … Continue reading Dr Julia Zulver: High Risk Feminism
In this podcast with Dr Hla Kyaw, the chairman of the European Rohingya Council, we seek to understand more about the ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya Muslims and discuss the potential solutions to this devastating crisis. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZluSL68fpyULsKce8Ig7P?si=4tmAIrw_RBifI5mRX_Qj1Q Interview by Lita Sitoh. Music by Lorcan Cudlip Cook
Photo by Jeffrey Hamilton The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and renewed gross inequalities in global access to education. These inequalities are not new, but the rapid large-scale move to online learning for the majority of the world has exacerbated the inequalities present in education systems across the world pre-pandemic. Even before the pandemic, progress in … Continue reading Educational Inequalities Move Online in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Here at OxSID, we aim to make navigating the world of International Development easier and more accessible to all. To do this, we have created this guide with our top tips on how best to access different jobs in development and to find the ones that best suit you and your skills/interests. Providing further insight … Continue reading A Brief Guide to Careers in International Development
OxSID President Caitlin Smith speaks with Ruby Weaver co-founder of Our Generation for Inclusive Peace - a new youth-led research and advocacy initiative seeking to revolutionise how we conduct peace and security negotiations. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gejlm3H0lPZEDuNL5QTXm?si=IAPW4zAUQEmkq3OzO_gp6w Interview by Caitlin Smith. Music by Lorcan Cudlip Cook
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