UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
March 5 2018
By Greg Hurst
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.
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