What are public interest groups? What are their aims?
Sometimes organisations are not about representing the interest of one section of society. They represent some common or general interest that needs to be defended. The numbers of the organisation may not benefit from the cause that the organisation represents. The Bolivian organisation FEDECOR is an example of that kind of an organisation. In the context of Nepal we noted the participation of human right organisation. These second type of groups are called promotional groups or public interest groups. They promote collective, rather than selective, good. They aim to help groups other than their own members. For example a group fighting against bonded labour fight not for themselves but for those who are suffering under such bondage. In some instances the members of a public interest group may undertake activity that benefits them as well as others too. For example, BAMCEF (Backward and Minorities Community Employees Federation) is an organisation largely of government employees that campaigns against caste discrimination. Its principal concern is social justice and social equality for the entire society.
