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Eighty Cases of Alleged Sex Abuse Uncovered after Oxfam Scandal

By Greg Hurst
The Times
March 5, 2018

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/eighty-cases-of-alleged-sex-abuse-uncovered-after-oxfam-scandal-8l8stc9wf

Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary, said that all organisations in receipt of British development aid would have to meet new and tougher standards to protect staff and beneficiaries of aid from abuse

Overseas development charities have reported 80 new incidents of sexual misconduct or abuse involving their staff.

The Charity Commission said that since The Times reported that seven Oxfam staff had paid for prostitutes or bullied colleagues in Haiti after its earthquake in 2011 a further 26 aid organisations had come forward to report cases of sexual misbehaviour or malpractice.

Of these, seven charities reported serious incidents that arose during the last financial year and 19 notified the regulator of historic cases of abuse that they had not reported at the time. It total 80 new incidents were reported.

These new cases spanned the “full spectrum” of seriousness, the commission said. It will examine details of each incident and pass details to the National Crime Agency…

 

 

 

 

 




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