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Oxfam alleged prostitution cover-up

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HairyBallTheorem · 09/02/2018 15:42

BBC article here

I read the Times article in the print version at lunch - front page lead article, plus two inside pages devoted to it, so if anyone could link with a share token this would be great.

It's about a group of men, senior in Oxfam's Haiti relief programme, having parties with prostitutes (some of whom may well have been under the age of consent). Someone blew the whistle, and the men were removed from Oxfam, but mostly through being paid off rather than sacked. The Times alleges Oxfam then systematically covered up the abuse so as not to cause ructions among the general public whose donations they rely on.

I know there have been other threads in the past, including posts from women who've worked for NGOs saying it's absolutely endemic. (About the only two names which pop up as not being involved and having decent policies against aid workers sexually abusing the vulnerable women and children they're meant to be helping are Christian Aid and MSF).

Does anyone have any thoughts on any sort of campaigning that could be done to get charities to clean up their act.

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user764329056 · 09/02/2018 16:07

Honestly no surprise, I used to work in the sector and travelled regularly to developing countries, it was well known that some staff were doing this, I tried addressing it to no avail, very depressing

blackberryfairy · 09/02/2018 16:02

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Uffishthought · 09/02/2018 16:02

"My utter fury knows no fucking bounds at the moment"

AMEN

LanaKanesTerfyVagina · 09/02/2018 15:59

Child abuse of the very people you are being paid to "help"

Ultimate abuse of power.

Evil cunting wankstains.

Every day I move a little bit more towards seriously hardcore radical feminism.

I can't even trust my lefty male friends anymore....recent conversations with some of them has really opened my eyes to the misogyny all around me... even from men I thought naively were "better" than that.

My utter fury knows no fucking bounds at the moment.

FissionChips · 09/02/2018 15:59

It’s common knowledge in a lot of developing countries that aid workers use prostitutes etc...part of the reason that they are not trusted my many.

DioneTheDiabolist · 09/02/2018 15:57

The only thing that shocks me in this, is that the men lost their jobs at all.

LanaKanesTerfyVagina · 09/02/2018 15:54

Why am I not surprised?

"Men using positions of power to abuse women and children"

It's become clearer and clearer to me that lefty/liberal men are just as bad as all the others.
In fact worse in some cases because they hide behind a screen of fluffy wuffy caring about environment/animals/racism and you think they're decent caring men.....then they're raping you, or beating you, or at best demonstrating unbelievable misogyny.

Men are just shits aren't they?
Fucking outrageous.

Collidascope · 09/02/2018 15:46

I've got the app, but no idea how to do a share token. I suspect that copying and pasting is frowned on...?

HairyBallTheorem · 09/02/2018 15:45

Sorry should have been clearer - it's the "cover up" bit that's alleged, not the prostitution ring, which is beyond dispute.

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