By Carol Te
MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics
The Huffington Post - Jan. 14, 2014
If you enter Cambodia, you'll inevitably notice a plethora of
non-profits that riddle the country. There has been a 75% increase of
orphanages in Cambodia since 2005, new schools teaching English herd
kids into classrooms, and civil society organizations working on
post-conflict issues have taken root in different provinces. If you walk
next door into Vietnam, you will encounter organizations meant to help
remaining victims of Agent Orange, homes to accommodate disabled
children, and seed money thrust on to impoverished families. The
emergence of non-governmental, non-profit organizations in these
countries is paralleled in other developing countries. These
organizations receive tens of millions of dollars in donation from the
international development assistance community, and they have gained
prominence in the social, economic and political affairs of their
respective countries. They are meant to provide services for citizens
that the government does not attend to in order to protect the rights of
the people -- yet are they the answer to human rights problems?
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