Voluntary Overseas Aid Organisations

Abstract

In recent years, the international voluntary aid organisations have involved themselves more directly with human rights issues. This closer involvement has often been the result of human rights cases which implicate their own field-staff, or staff-members of organisations which they have sponsored; it also reflects the wider view of their work over the past few years, the greater attention given both to the political causes of development problems and the social consequences of their own aid programme. This in turn has resulted in new efforts to educate the public at home on the nature and implications of voluntary overseas aid.