Oil and Darfur's Blood: China's Thirst for Sudan's Oil

China, a rising super power and one of the fast growing economies in the world is showing unparalleled interest in Sudan. This interestplays itself out at the UN Security Council as well as inside Sudan. On numerous occasions, China has defied the United Nations Security Council and the international community by it usage or threat of veto to block several UN resolutions and sanctions on Khartoum’s regime and those accused of war crimes in Darfur. All these make China-Sudan relation more complex as well as interesting topic for an exploration. 

In this paper, focus is on China’s roles at the UN, China’s oil imports from Sudan and its arms ‘trades with Sudanese regime and how this complex relationship affects the Darfur conflict. Finally,the paper explores ways that China can help UN with the rest of the world tobring a lasting political settlement to Sudan’s region of Darfur.

Inter sectionality of Marginalization and Inequality: A Case Study of Muslims in India

Marginalization is a process that leads to side lining of a certain community/individual to the periphery of the social space that eventually constrain their life choices at political space, social negotiation, and economic bargaining. It is a complexcontested umbrella term is inextricably linked with the concept of inequalitywithin the marginalized communities. 

In fact, inequality and marginalization are usually at interface in that they both with interacts and reinforces each other. Religious minority groups are amongst those who encounter severe exclusion, discrimination and oppression. In case of Indian Muslims as areligious marginalized community, these two concepts overlap. However, concern with ‘marginalization’ is relatively recent and it is imperative to check the development trajectory on the marginalized groups.