The CV of Sally O'Neill from Trocaire takes the reader on a trip around the globe, to places where abject misery is a way of life and human rights are dirty words. Ever since she began studying her masters degree in communications and development studies in DCU, the Co Tyrone woman has strived to make a difference.
In 1978 she went to Latin America to work as a project officer for Trocaire. Today she is Trocaire's representative in Central America. In between she has worked with families of the disappeared throughout Latin America and collaborated with Human Rights organisation in Chile investigating victims of the Pinochet regime.
She has worked in Cambodia on genocide issues and aided refugees and displaced people in Central America. Her work now takes her to Guatemala and El Salvador where she is involved in the investigation of massacres and to Honduras where she monitors the exhumation of mass graves. Married with three children, O'Neill is also integral to a number of projects involving social and economic rights, women's rights and the working conditions in Free Trade Zones.