Much is being made of the all-party MPs’ report into sexual abuse by charities and NGO workers in various parts of the world. But it is unlikely to remedy the situation if the environment and attitudes that facilitate this behaviour – and have done so for many years – are not addressed, argues (...)
Report by UK parliament’s International Development Committee humanitarian groups enact safeguards against sexual abuse.
London, England - Sexual abuse and exploitation of some of the world’s most vulnerable people by humanitarian workers is “endemic”, according to a new report by British members (...)
Women unite in call for charities, donors and the UN to support and protect staff who report sexual misconduct
More than a thousand female aid workers from around the world have signed an open letter calling for urgent reform across the humanitarian sector, including better support for women (...)
The #metoo social media storm of exposure, testimony and accusations of sexual abuse has reached the charity sector in Western Europe. Time for humanitarian CSOs to clean up and increase their accountability.
Oxfam (UK) has been caught covering up for a handful of senior managers who organised (...)
British study finds anti-migrant and pro-Trump groups spreading increasing number of false stories about aid agencies to weaken their reputation
Aid agencies and charities are increasingly the target of fake news aimed at undermining their credibility, according to by the International (...)
Donor countries should use an agency’s record in safeguarding as a key criterion in making grants, says Asmita Naik
After Savile, Weinstein, the well-cosseted world of the BBC, Hollywood, the Catholic church, how can anyone be surprised by revelations of sexual exploitation in the world’s most (...)
Médecins Sans Frontières confirms 19 staff were fired over sexual harassment or abuse
International aid group Médecins Sans Frontières acted on 24 cases of sexual harassment or abuse last year and fired 19 employees, it has revealed, as the British charity Oxfam faces questions over its handling (...)
Figures for earthquake relief range from $10bn to $13.4bn. Some of us who visited Haiti have seen little or no sign of that money, write activists
In 2008 some of us had written to Barbara Stocking, then Oxfam chief executive, objecting to a report that it sponsored, Rule of Rapists in Haiti, (...)
If Oxfam responds by listening to its critics it could restore faith in a sector that was damaged long before the latest allegations
Oh Oxfam. I love you. And I hate you. I love that you were a pioneer in international development, that you were an organisation built on solidarity, education, (...)
Power imbalances and inequality lie at the heart of the international development industry. But the Oxfam scandal shows that organisations mustn’t succumb to it.
Revelations that Oxfam workers paid for prostitutes in Haiti as the organisation was supporting survivors of the earthquake in 2011, (...)
Managers of the charity used the services of prostitutes in Haiti and other crisis-ridden countries. The accusations (so far) relate only to private behaviour. But they reduce the public credibility of the charity, which still has a progressive image in the UK. The British government is (...)
One of the first reports that demonstrated the need to protect refugees from threats from humanitarian workers was this 2002 joint UNHCR and Save the Children UK report on the sexual exploitation of refugee children in West Africa.
Sharply turning the tables on the carers and protectors, it (...)
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