The committee, which took evidence from civil servants, ministers, NGOs and Europe, criticised Britain for giving too much importance to economic development, which it too often viewed as a magic bullet in development.
They will probably be ostracised by friends, rejected by family and turned away by the UN and the myriad international NGOs that are equipped, trained and ready to help women.
But it's also the responsibility of NGOs to get those stories across well, points out Mayur Paul of Bond, the membership body for UK development organisations.
Simon O'Connell, the executive director of Mercy Corps Europe, states that "both NGOs and journalists have been guilty of an overly-simplistic portrayal of people who are caught in crisis or poverty and both groups need to get better at telling that story".
As a communications officer at Medecin sans Frontieres she has had plenty of experience of the delicate relationship between journalists and NGOs.
This year my family has decided to avoid the usual online petitions and donations of gold coins that disappear into the purses of NGOs.
We have a well established War Crimes Community Involvement Panel that consists of law enforcement, NGOs and others which has been cited internationally as an example of good practice.
NGOs are also required to mark their publications with the term, and start any oral statement with a disclosure that it is being delivered by a foreign agent.
A similar process should be adopted to initiate a dispassionate debate on the rights of LGBTQI staff within NGOs, regardless of the legal and social framework they operate in.
Most international NGOs are registered in countries where homosexuality is legal, including same-sex marriage, and socially accepted.
Unfortunately, not only do many NGOs allow discrimination based on sexual orientation to happen in their countries of operation, but they even justify discriminatory attitudes with religious and cultural arguments, let alone if there is no supportive legal body in that particular country.
