Oxfam, Haiti & The Assistance Industry's #Metoo Moment-A Curated Bibliography

Last update: four July 2018.

There are at nowadays to a greater extent than than 120 resources featured inward this bibliography!
For the fourth dimension being, my bibliography volition non live updated regularly anymore, but the July update includes novel sources that are diretly linked to the fiscal fall-out from the original scandal.

The debate has branched out inward therefore many dissimilar directions since the original scandal broke that I desire to maintain this thread to a greater extent than narrowly most the Oxfam scandal together with how media the assist manufacture responded to it.

I uncovering curated together with annotated collections a useful way to percentage together with relieve links, Tweets or videos on topics that make a lot of nutrient for idea together with word on #globaldev issues.

There have got been quite intensive discussions these yesteryear few days after The Times broke the initial story on Oxfam's treatment of the Republic of Haiti affair.

I can't mayhap claim that my curated overview is fifty-fifty anywhere close complete, but I have got tried to compile quite a few tidings media articles together with a foremost circular of commentary from my networks. The Tweets are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than selective, but non random, together with meant to illustrate dissimilar arguments that have got shown upward inward my networks.

Debates are also taking seat inward many interesting semi-public spaces, including Facebook groups or E-Mail lists, however, I volition only focus on publicly available material.

Because of their long history of divisive, inaccurate together with unethical journalism media brands such equally the Daily Mail or The Sun are non included inward this overview

The Times's reporting (paywalled)
Minister orders Oxfam to mitt over files on Republic of Haiti prostitute scandal

The authorities has ordered Oxfam to mitt over files on charity staff who paid for sexual practice inward earthquake-torn Haiti. The demand follows an investigation yesteryear The Times that revealed Oxfam covered upward the exercise of prostitutes yesteryear senior assist workers.
Matt Hancock, the civilisation secretarial assistant who is responsible for charity regulation, said: “These allegations are deeply shocking together with Oxfam must at nowadays supply the Charity Commission with all the evidence they handgrip of events that happened inward Republic of Haiti equally a affair of urgency.

Sean O'Neil (9 February, 17:00; updated).

The Guardian's reporting
How assist means failings halt inward exploitation

“CVs that would enhance questions elsewhere because of the frequency of moves are portion of the culture,” said the United Nations official.
“The scheme is therefore big, together with needful of staff, it’s quite piece of cake for people to disappear together with popular upward elsewhere. It’s non considered weird if people displace on. That’s what happens oft with emergencies.” The yawning gap inward wealth together with access to resources betwixt assist workers together with those they are paid to assist adds to the potential for exploitation.
“The [senior assist officials on the ground] don’t fifty-fifty Pb the life of the locals, they are little gods. It’s most entitlement – they are entitled to make whatever they want,” said i old senior Oxfam employee.

Emma Graham-Harrison (10 February, 21:19 GMT; Last modified on 12 February, 12:32 GMT).

Oxfam: fresh claims that staff used prostitutes inward Chad

Former staff who worked for the charity inward Republic of Chad alleged that women believed to live prostitutes were repeatedly invited to the Oxfam squad theatre there, with i adding that a senior fellow member of staff had been fired for his behavior inward 2006.

Rebecca Ratcliffe together with Ben Quinn (11 February, 08:50 GMT).

The Oxfam row is no argue to cutting unusual aid

But much else is at risk, too. In the era of Trump, Brexit together with silken Rees-Moggery, the notion that prosperous nations have got a moral together with practical responsibleness to the poorest is fading from fashion. The populist correct is straining at the leash to take a wrecking ball to the Department for International Development; to caricature it equally the paymaster of pimps together with perverts. Those who believe inward Britain’s enduring obligation to the desperate of the world human face the combat of their lives.

Matthew d'Ancona (11 February, 16:36 GMT).

Oxfam faces losing funding equally crisis grows over abuse claims

The old international evolution secretarial assistant Priti Patel said: “People knew inward DfID. I raised this straight with my subdivision at the time. I have got United Nations reports... at that topographic point are 120 cases involving something similar over 300 people. That was merely the tip of the iceberg.”
After Mordaunt’s warning that populace funding was at risk, Thomson said she shared the “anger together with shame” widely expressed over events inward Haiti. “It is clear that such behavior is completely exterior our values together with should never live tolerated,” she said. “We apologise unreservedly. We have got made large improvements since 2011 together with today I commit that nosotros volition improve further.”

Kevin Rawlinson together with Robert Booth (11 February, 20:33 GMT).

As a old assist worker, I’m non shocked yesteryear the Oxfam revelations

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 civilisation of bullying, harassment together with racism is rife amongst agencies roughly the world. This is an manufacture inward demand of reform
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Thanks to brave whistleblowers together with those who have got confronted Oxfam, many of whom are women, the floodgates are at nowadays open. It volition live impossible to handgrip dorsum all the data emerging from other assist organisations on the opaque together with damaging cultures that have got allowed potential criminal activity, sexual exploitation, harassment together with other abhorrent behavior to thrive, together with indeed live rewarded through the advertisement of those defendant of wrongdoing. We have got seen at to the lowest degree i resignation – at that topographic point may live more.

Shaista Aziz (12 February, 16:09 GMT).

#MeToo strikes assist sector equally sexual exploitation allegations proliferate

Senior figures inward the humanitarian world have got described the allegations of sexual exploitation that have got embroiled Oxfam equally the tip of the iceberg together with the assist sector’s #MeToo moment.
In interviews with the Guardian, humanitarian officials with experience working across the globe have got told largely similar stories of colleagues’ exercise of sexual practice workers, suspicions of the exploitation of vulnerable women for sexual practice – including minors – together with a unwillingness of their organisations to properly tackle the issue.
Many said that despite repeated warnings – going dorsum fifteen years to a together with therefore controversial written report yesteryear Save the Children on the prevalence of sexual abuse inward westward Africa that include assist worker abuse – the number has long been ignored yesteryear managers.

Peter Beaumont together with Rebecca Ratcliffe (12 February, 17:04 GMT).

The Oxfam scandal shows colonialism is live together with well

This is non merely most a handful of charity workers tarnishing the function of living saints. There are many goodness people inward NGOs who empathize the complexities of beingness “in the field”. The best of them function with smaller local organisations. This is non an excuse to cancel assist budgets – but tin can nosotros delight halt talking most sexual practice function equally a lifestyle choice. We are outset to know what Oxfam did non desire us to know, but nosotros already knew that the “price” of surely women is considered therefore depression equally non to count at all.

Suzanne Moore (12 February, 16:15 GMT).

Oxfam warned it could lose European funding over scandal

A old senior official at the charity also said she had repeatedly warned senior management of a civilisation of sexual abuse inward some offices roughly the world, together with asked for to a greater extent than resources to tackle the issue. Helen Evans, the caput of global safeguarding at Oxfam from 2012 to 2015, told Channel four News that inward a unmarried 24-hour interval she received allegations most a adult woman beingness coerced to have got sexual practice inward a humanitarian response yesteryear an assist worker, a adult woman beingness coerced inward telephone commutation for assist together with some other instance where a staff fellow member had been struck off for sexual abuse together with hadn’t disclosed that.
She also claimed that volunteers equally immature equally xiv inward Oxfam shops inward the Great Britain had alleged abuse. In at to the lowest degree i instance an adult volunteer had allegedly assaulted a kid volunteer. In 2012-14 at that topographic point were 12 allegations, she said.
The European commission, which provided almost equally much funding equally the Great Britain authorities lastly year, said: “We are cook to review together with if needed cease funding whatsoever partner who is non living upward to the required high ethical standards.”

Robert Booth (12 February, 19:33 GMT).

The Oxfam sexual practice story is horrific. So is the state of war on unusual aid

The Oxfam scandal has travel a fresh front end inward a civilisation war: whatsoever assist that isn’t a geopolitical or trading musical instrument is hypocritical do-gooding. All officials are contaminated. It’s the politics of annihilation, to which the only response is to travel dorsum to foremost principles: should nosotros halt the “madness” of unusual aid? Only if nosotros desire to descend into the madness of solipsistic isolation.

Zoe Williams (13 February, 6:00 GMT). 

Oxfam scandal must forcefulness assist sector to finally address its ain power

What Oxfam together with the wider sector have got failed to make is to truly address their ain powerfulness inward international development. This is the systemic failing at play, non the sexual misconduct on its own.
Decisions together with actions yesteryear the larger agencies oft travel on to live based on arrogance together with a “we know what’s best” approach, rather than something that is accountable to those most inward demand together with the communities inward which they’re working. So it’s no surprise that their response to the Republic of Haiti province of affairs was wanting. They tried to handgrip on to the powerfulness together with command of the number together with were caught out.

Deborah Doane (13 February, 7:00 GMT).

The toxic effects of the Oxfam scandal have got weakened us all inward the assist sector

An epidemic has affected institutions across our society, from political parties together with the House of Commons, to broadcasters, football game teams together with private companies – together with it is global inward reach. This epidemic is rooted inward the unequal powerfulness relationships that enable powerful together with predatory men to exploit women together with children through bullying, sexual harassment together with outright violence. The only antidote is a civilisation of null tolerance, backed yesteryear rules, recruitment practices, together with leadership.
Development agencies cannot acquire this wrong. We are dealing with some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Across our programmes, nosotros come upward into contact with women together with children who have got lost everything. Our staff inward People's Republic of Bangladesh are working with Rohingya refugees who have got been impoverished, displaced, together with traumatised yesteryear horrific acts of violence. They have got a correct to human face together with demand the highest standards of protection.

Kevin Watkins (13 February, 13:39 GMT). 

NGO crimes create it beyond Oxfam

The latest revelations of sexual abuse yesteryear major charities (Report, xiii February), are but i facet of NGO corruption. The people of Republic of Haiti were the foremost to costless themselves from slavery, but the colonial “masters” they defeated – France, Great Britain together with the USA – have got continued to plunder together with exploit, including through imported NGOs. Republic of Haiti has to a greater extent than NGOs per foursquare mile than whatsoever other province together with it remains the poorest inward the western hemisphere. Corruption begins together with ends with neo-colonial powers.
While celebrated for “doing good”, NGO professionals make good for themselves. They displace betwixt NGOs, academia together with political appointments, enjoying a civilisation of impunity patch they exercise powerfulness over the poorest. The Lancet described NGOs inward Republic of Haiti equally “polluted yesteryear unsavoury characteristics seen inward many large corporations” together with “obsessed with raising money”.

Letters (13 February, 17:40 GMT).

Sexualised atmosphere amongst assist workers inward Republic of Haiti disturbed me

And of course, sexual practice inward state of war together with disaster zones isn’t surprising. I’ve seen a lot of it inward other disasters since; at that topographic point have got been books written most it. There’s a basic psychology to it, something most a primal demand for comfort together with trauma bonding. But what I found disturbing inward Republic of Haiti was the profound disconnect betwixt the overtly sexualised atmosphere inward the assist together with journalistic community together with the visceral horror of the catastrophe surrounding us.
I saw the international assist community make a lot of goodness inward Haiti. It also brought cholera to an already devastated country. Now it appears that assist workers also took the chance to purchase underage sexual practice cheaply. Trauma bonding I tin can empathize – callous exploitation I cannot.

Phoebe Greenwood (13 February, 22:37 GMT). 

Oxfam allegations are tip of iceberg': sexual harassment together with assist workers – podcast

Rebecca Ratcliffe spent many months interviewing United Nations staff from roughly the world who have got experienced sexual harassment together with assault, but have got been discouraged from complaining. She talks to Lucy Lamble most the civilisation of impunity, together with of women beingness forced out of their jobs for daring to speak up. They hash out how the humanitarian sector equally a whole tin can take activity to postage stamp out such exploitation.

Podcast presented yesteryear Lucy Lamble with Rebecca Ratcliffe, produced yesteryear Gabriela Jones (14 February, 6:00 GMT).

French assist grouping MSF says it dealt with 24 abuse cases lastly year

International assist grouping Médecins Sans Frontières acted on 24 cases of sexual harassment or abuse lastly yr together with fired nineteen employees, it has revealed, equally the British charity Oxfam faces questions over its treatment of a sexual misconduct scandal.
The Paris-based group, i of the world’s largest assist organisations, issued a declaration proverb it had received 146 complaints or alerts lastly year. “After an internal investigation, xl cases were found to live allegations of harassment or abuse,” it said. “Of these, 24 were cases of harassment or sexual abuse.”

Angelique Chrisafis (14 February, 18:00 GMT).


Shaista Aziz (16 February, 09:20 GMT).

Oxfam main accuses critics of 'gunning' for charity over Republic of Haiti sexual practice scandal claims

Goldring said that attempts to explicate decisions taken over the divergence of Roland van Hauwermeiren, Oxfam’s old province main inward Haiti, next allegations that he paid for intercourse together with was involved inward sexual practice parties inward the country, had been “branded equally an excuse”.
“Anything nosotros say is beingness manipulated,” said Goldring. “I said on TV: ‘Yes, nosotros could have got done some things faster’, together with suddenly we’ve got ii old ministers calling for my resignation. What I felt really clearly is many people haven’t wanted to head to explanations.”
Among those Goldring accuses of a lack of residue is Oxfam’s old caput of global safeguarding, Helen Evans, who has been widely quoted criticising Oxfam’s failings.
Saying that she should non have got gone populace with her concerns, Goldring added: “I recollect [her criticism] was real unbalanced, together with ironically didn’t give plenty credit to the real function that she promoted. I don’t recollect she gives either herself or Oxfam plenty credit for what was really steady improvement.”

Decca Aitkenhead together with Peter Beaumont (16 February, 15:10 GMT).

The Oxfam scandal does non justify demonising the entire assist sector

Humanitarian activity is at nowadays to a greater extent than necessary than ever. We are facing a worldwide refugee crisis , growing together with protracted conflicts. Genocide beckons inward Myanmar, together with the besiegement of Republic of Yemen is driving increasingly desperate needs. The vast bulk of humanitarians function to alleviate these circumstances, inward the little yet meaningful ways nosotros can. It is a little minority that contributes to the issues nether word here. Ensuring the rubber functioning of humanitarian organisations is imperative for the futurity of our world. We demand to a greater extent than assistance for such organisations, to ensure that they tin can deliver the highest character programming, inward the safest manner, to the world’s most vulnerable people.

Megan Norbert (17 February, 09:00 GMT). 

Public trust is to a greater extent than fluid than nosotros allow, together with Oxfam must win it back

The exposure of scandal tin can convey futurity make goodness if it acts equally a catalyst for change. The constabulary have got travel meliorate behaved together with to a greater extent than accountable – non perfect, but improved – since they were made dependent land to independent regulation. That old saw with which I began this column may non live alone accurate. Trust does non necessarily take “forever to repair”. It takes a long time, but it doesn’t have got to live an eternity. If Oxfam starts to sort itself out with the necessary remedial measures, which include transparency, accountability together with robust reform, the charity may slow hook dorsum populace respect.
That is its duty. Our responsibleness is to non allow outrage cloud perspective. The great bulk of those who function inward the charitable sector are decent people dedicated to trying to assist others. Many to a greater extent than lives have got been saved than have got been harmed. This scandal has cast a black shadow over decades of valuable work. We tin can live appalled yesteryear the shadow without losing sight of the work.

Andrew Rawnsley (18 February, 00:02 GMT). 

If paying for sexual practice is incorrect inward Haiti, why make nosotros soundless tolerate it inward the UK?

Did attitudes alter betwixt Amnesty’s pimps’ charter, Vaz together with Corbyn’s sex-trade normalising together with Oxfam’s resounding sex-buyer shaming? Supposing an eagerness to onrush Oxfam, or aid-giving inward general, does non alone concern human relationship for the close universal condemnation, it could be, inward the context of #MeToo, that prostitution is, indeed, the latest, if most extreme, illustration of women’s objectification to come upward up for reappraisal. It could even, reversing a Great Britain drift towards a costless market, live newly opened upward to legislative review.

Catherine Bennett (18 February, 00:03 GMT). 

Mordaunt accuses Oxfam of 'complete betrayal of trust' over Republic of Haiti scandal – Politics live

More than one-half of people who donate to charities similar Oxfam less probable to after Republic of Haiti scandal, poll suggests
DfID main says Oxfam scandal has undermined populace back upward for assist spending
Oxfam's evidence most the Republic of Haiti sexual practice scandal - Summary

Andrew Sparrow (20 February).

Oxfam abuse scandal is built on the assist industry’s white saviour mentality

We have got all been conditioned to believe that assist agencies together with charities operate inward an uncivilised vacuum. It’s difficult to overstate how much influence large NGOs have got over the data nosotros receive. These days few newsrooms tin can afford the cost of sending correspondents into crisis zones without their help. As a result, the tidings nosotros eat is filtered through the prism of humanitarian relief work, where the civilised assist the uncivilised – together with if the helpers travel deviant, what tin can yous human face inward such a climate?
The revelations most sexual abuse together with misconduct – long overdue – have got prompted a depressing combination of tropical neurasthenia together with simulated moral outrage. I say simulated because this is really all most money. Our involvement inward these organisations is based on the fact they have got received millions from British taxpayers. It is this that has been the middle of our concern rather than the wellbeing of the victims themselves.

Afua Hirsch (20 February, 19:09 GMT). 

Oxfam loses 7,000 donors since sexual exploitation scandal

Goldring repeatedly apologised to the commission for his ain comments that had appeared to play downwards the seriousness of the scandal. In an interview lastly calendar week inward the Guardian, Goldring said the charity was beingness attacked equally if “we murdered babies inward their cots” together with said he had non slept for half dozen days.
“I create no excuses, I create an apology for comparison what I was going through with the bigger picture,” he told MPs. “My foremost concern is the women of Republic of Haiti together with anybody else who has been wronged equally a resultant of Oxfam’s programme. I shouldn’t have got set my ain sleep, or lack of it, inward the populace domain.
“I have got tried difficult to residue function together with slumber over the lastly ii weeks. The results, I believe, are that I’m continuing to make my chore together with I’m continuing to create appropriate decisions. I promise I have got led Oxfam competently, but that’s for others to decide.”
Goldring told the commission that at the fourth dimension of the original investigation into events inward Haiti, Oxfam issued a press release revealing its findings of “serious misconduct” involving bullying, intimidation together with breaches of the charity’s code of conduct. It did non travel into details at the fourth dimension most the fact that sexual exploitation was involved. He admitted, with hindsight, the charity should have got been to a greater extent than transparent.

Jessica Elgot together with Karen McVeigh (20 February, 18:40 GMT).

May says Great Britain volition non cutting assist inward wake of Oxfam scandal

The UK’s assist budget volition non live cutting equally a resultant of the sexual exploitation scandal affecting the sector, the prime number government minister has confirmed inward a force dorsum against the correct fly of her party.
There have got been calls for the authorities to flake the commitment to pass at to the lowest degree 0.7% of gross national income on unusual aid, including from the MP some Tories have got touted equally Theresa May’s potential successor, Jacob Rees-Mogg.
May told the Commons on Midweek that the evolution sector needed to acquire its theatre inward order, but insisted the Great Britain would maintain its overall assist budget.

Kevin Rawlinson (21 February, 15:42 GMT).

I’m going to maintain giving to Oxfam, together with therefore should you

I am distressing together with angry most what happened inward Republic of Haiti together with Chad, but I am also distressing together with angry that people inward the Great Britain who had no involvement whatsoever inward the welfare of those people are at nowadays occupying the moral high basis or, worse, using this crisis equally a way of furthering their ain elbow grease against overseas assist inward general.
Taking coin away from Oxfam is non an deed without consequences. If yous desire to halt donating to the charity, create surely your coin soundless gets to the people who demand it. And whichever charity yous choose, enquire what they are doing to root out together with preclude abuse. Because it volition live happening together with it volition come upward to light. It has to come upward to light.
The only route out of this terrible mess is for every charity – for every organisation of whatsoever variety – to plough a harsh low-cal on itself, to take its failings together with to alter them. It volition live a painful journey, but it is i they are all going to have got to take. And the sooner they start, the better.

Mark Haddon (21 February, 16:54 GMT). 

'Aid staff would pay more': sexual practice workers inward Republic of Haiti speak out

Magdala, 25, has been working the streets for a yr together with spends almost everything she earns on feeding her one-year-old son. She lives with her parents inward a neighbouring slum, who recollect she has found function inward i of Pétion-Ville’s upscale bars.
“When a machine pulls up, everyone is hoping it’s a foreigner because they pay therefore much more,” she says. “Sometimes nosotros combat over who gets to the machine window first.”
One nighttime inward December, a customer pulled a gun on Magdala together with stole her telephone after having sexual practice with her, leaving her stranded inward an unknown portion of the city. “It was terrifying, but I didn’t tell anybody,” she says, clenching a fist. “I hateful who could I tell? It’s non similar the constabulary would make anything.”
All of the sexual practice workers inward Port-au-Prince who spoke to the Guardian fearfulness reporting incidents to the police, worrying that they volition live arrested themselves or dismissed equally liars.

Joe Parkin Daniels (28 February, 07:00 GMT).

The Oxfam scandal has taught us at that topographic point is no vantage for honest charities

The understandable furore over sexual abuse inward the sector has shown that private together with authorities donors claim to value NGOs that are accountable. If that is true, they volition have got to brace themselves to hear tales of abuse together with mismanagement because disclosure is essential for transparency. The populace needs to hear it has unreasonable expectations most what it takes to prioritise safeguarding.
NGOs must acknowledge they have got inflated these expectations inward the yesteryear past beingness likewise timid to acknowledge bad tidings stories. And governments should recognise their failures to enquire searching questions most abuse – fifty-fifty when straight presented with the evidence. As a sector, nosotros demand a to a greater extent than mature debate most how to encourage a civilisation of transparency together with learning – something that has been missing inward the rush to vilify Oxfam.

Angela Crack (16 March, 07:07 GMT).

Oxfam 'kept assist worker on inward Republic of Haiti despite sexual practice harassment claims'

Oxfam has been defendant of farther failures inward Republic of Haiti yesteryear keeping a senior assist worker inward the earthquake-torn province for to a greater extent than than a yr despite reported sexual harassment claims.
According to an internal written report seen yesteryear The Times, the charity attempted to “contain” sexual harassment allegations involving Raphael Mutiku, an assist worker who led Oxfam’s installation of H2O supplies inward Republic of Haiti after the earthquake.
The documents claim to demo a lastly written warning was issued to Mutiku, a Kenyan engineer inward his 40s, inward June 2010, next allegations of sexual harassment from woman someone colleagues.

Press Association (17 March, 00:52 GMT). 

Oxfam main steps downwards after charity's sexual abuse scandal

Intense criticism over the abuse led to the resignation of Oxfam’s together with therefore deputy main executive, Penny Lawrence. At that point, Goldring said he would non stair downwards unless the charity’s board lost faith inward his leadership.
Asked if the annunciation of his resignation on Midweek was related to how he dealt with the crisis, an Oxfam spokeswoman said: “No, it’s absolutely non to make with his treatment at all.” Goldring is expected to stay inward his postal service until his successor is found.

Kevin Rawlinson (16 May, 19:16 GMT). 

Oxfam sexual abuse scandal fallout was 'out of proportion', says Clare Short

Short told the committee’s research into sexual exploitation together with abuse, which was laid upward inward the aftermath of the Oxfam scandal, that patch no shape of sexual abuse should live tolerated, it is non unique to the assist sector.
“I recollect the way the Times covered this allegation most i homo inward Republic of Haiti was completely distorted together with out of all proportion. It doesn’t hateful what he did was acceptable. I graduated inward ‘68 – academy lecturers used to come upward on to immature students. When I was an official inward the Home Office at that topographic point was a senior official who tried it.
“I recollect if yous went to the Times paper at that topographic point would live people who misused their power. Certainly inward my fourth dimension inward DfID at that topographic point was an ambassador who was having affairs with lots of dissimilar people,” said Short, adding that the whole of authorities needed to have got meliorate codes of conduct.

Rebecca Radcliffe (5 June, 16:33 GMT).

Clare Short is wrong. No wonder sexual abuse is rife inward the assist sector

This extraordinarily insensitive together with crass response sums upward just where nosotros are, months after whistleblowers at Oxfam went populace with accusations of sexual abuse together with misconduct at the charity – triggering similar activity from women at Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières together with the UN; together with the creation of the hashtags #AidToo together with #UNToo, on the dorsum of the #MeToo together with #TimesUp movements.
In reality, real piddling has really changed inward the sector since the foremost Oxfam revelations. And piddling volition alter until those inward the sector realise at that topographic point is zip particular most the assist manufacture – that sexual abuse is the resultant of structural patriarchy, abuse of powerfulness together with inequality, merely equally it is elsewhere inward society.

Shaista Aziz (8 June, 12:53 GMT).

Oxfam to axe jobs together with assist programmes inward £16m cuts after scandal

The charity needs to create substantial savings because of a £16m shortfall inward its “unrestricted” budget – coin raised from its shops together with individuals to live spent on whatever it sees fit.
The document says £16m represents “around 10% of our relevant income”. With the charity soundless reeling from the Republic of Haiti scandal, the document says i of the charity’s guiding principles over the side yesteryear side ii years is to “protect together with reinforce women’s rights, gender judge together with civilisation change”.

Nick Hopkins (15 June, 13:02).

The Independent's reporting
Oxfam defendant of failing to warn assist agencies that employed old staff who had hired prostitutes

But the French charity told The Independent that they “conducted references checks equally per French labour law regulations together with internal procedures earlier employing”, him.
It said: “During this physical care for Action Against Hunger received no data regarding the inappropriate together with unethical behaviours of Roland van Hauwermeiren when he was with Oxfam inward Republic of Haiti nor whatsoever warning on the risks of employing him.”

Daniel Khalili-Tari (10 February).

When it comes to kid sexual practice abuse inward assist work, the Oxfam revelations are merely the tip of the iceberg

Oxfam is far from lonely with sexual harassment, rape together with kid rape accusations. The job is becoming to a greater extent than good known inward the entire assist industry. The UK’s old National Criminal Intelligence Service, which registered together with monitored the activities of paedophiles, warned equally far dorsum equally 1999 that the scale of the job of paedophiles inward the assist world is on a degree with sexual practice tourism.

Andrew MacLeod (10 February).

We demand to increment the unusual assist budget next the Oxfam Republic of Haiti scandal

You tin can almost experience the warmth radiating from the middle-class, middle-aged snug bars of the Home Counties, where the idea of a rich province sending 0.7 per cent of its gross domestic product to needy foreigners curdles the tonic inward the G&Ts. What a relief to uncovering their intuitive distrust of altruism confirmed.
They ever knew these charities, similar unusual assist itself, were gigantic rackets propagated yesteryear morally superior liberal prigs together with operated yesteryear crooks. Now they’ve been proved right.
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It would live a tragedy together with a source of national shame if the Government allow this scandal live fashioned into the battering ram that finally broke its resistance to cutting that budget.
It should increment it yesteryear whatever is required to ensure that Oxfam together with others have got the funds for adequate background checks together with effective policing of staff. What it cannot do, nevertheless intense the pressure level from the reactionary correct wing, is throw out the malnourished babe with the scummy bathwater of a few rancid individuals.

Matthew Norman (12 February).

The prostitution claims surrounding Oxfam don’t surprise me. I’ve seen it all earlier with charities across the world – together with the UN

The sexual practice merchandise is built on colonialism together with racism, equally good equally misogyny. Whether it is the overrepresentation of African American girls together with women inward prostitution inward the US, or the targeting of indigenous together with native women together with girls inward countries such equally Australia, New Zealand together with Canada, it is clear that rich, powerful, white men consider it their “right” to exercise such women together with girls equally commodities.

Julie Bindel (12 February). 

British charities human face authorities crackdown equally Oxfam sexual exploitation scandal widens

A global register of evolution workers may live established, equally the UK, amongst the the United Nations, increases its efforts to combat sexual exploitation together with prepares to host a summit on the number later this month.

Lizzie Dearden (13 February). 

Oxfam scandal: Minnie Driver quits exercise equally celebrity ambassador over Republic of Haiti prostitution allegations

Actress Minnie Driver has quit equally an Oxfam ambassador after xx years with the charity, becoming the foremost celebrity to stair downwards next allegations that senior staff members paid for sexual practice with locals inward crisis zones.
The Good Will Hunting star said she was "nothing curt of horrified” yesteryear the allegations against the charity.

Emily Shugerman (14 February). 

Unless charities similar Oxfam rediscover their moral core, they won’t survive

But that was a completely dissimilar era, when populace back upward had been effectively mobilised yesteryear efforts that culminated inward the Make Poverty History campaign. There was to a greater extent than coin to pass across the board – on schools, hospitals, the police, Sure Start centres together with revenue enhancement credits, non merely international development. And dorsum then, the evolution charities were seen equally squeaky clean.
None of this holds now. The evolution charities have got their loyal supporters, but at that topographic point is no longer a bulk motion putting pressure level on the government. In 2005 a sustained funding boost for the NHS meant the papers were non total of stories most longer waiting lists together with patients left for hours on trolleys inward A&E. Finally, at that topographic point is the reputational impairment from the realisation that when it comes to powerful predatory men exploiting vulnerable women together with children, evolution charities are non really whatsoever dissimilar from other walks of life.

Larry Elliot (14 February, 17:02 GMT).  

Mary Beard posts tearful painting of herself after defense forcefulness of Oxfam assist workers provokes backlash

However, if she had been hoping the postal service would plough the criticism into sympathy she was disappointed. The Netherlands-based author together with feminist Flavia Dzodan tweeted: “Mary Beard, a prominent adult woman with almost 200k followers posted a photograph of herself crying her white feminist tears. I am amazed yesteryear the extent of sentimentality people volition travel through, debasing themselves if necessary inward monastic say to sustain their ignorance, bigotry or both.”

Roisin O'Connor (18 February).

Nicola Sturgeon warns Oxfam sexual practice scandal should non live used equally 'cover' for unusual assist cuts

"But we've also got to live clear that the assist sector does goodness function together with it's of import inward condemning the revelations that we've heard that we're non allowing those - together with let's live pretty frank most this - nosotros know at that topographic point are no shortage of people within the electrical flow Great Britain Government who would desire to reckon the international assist budget decimated or removed altogether.
“We must non allow this variety of situation, unacceptable though it is, to live used equally comprehend for that broader political watch point."
The comments came equally the Prime Minister criticised staff at Oxfam describing their actions equally “horrific”.

Shebab Khan (19 February).

BBC    
BBC Radio four - World at One, xiii February
48:00 computer programme on the topic.

Oxfam executive 'aware' of Asia staff abuse claims

A senior figure inward Oxfam says she is aware of yesteryear claims of sexual abuse involving the charity's staff inward Asia.
Lan Mercado told the BBC the cases took seat inward the Philippines, People's Republic of Bangladesh together with Nepal earlier she started equally regional manager ii years ago.
She said the scale of misconduct was "not comparable" to that inward Haiti, where Oxfam faces claims staff paid vulnerable people for sex.

BBC News (14 February).

Oxfam: Former staff fellow member dismissed yesteryear Cafod after abuse claims

A Catholic charity has sacked a worker after it emerged he had been defendant of sexually exploiting vulnerable people inward Republic of Haiti patch working for Oxfam.
Cafod said it was "unaware" of the claims until contacted this calendar week yesteryear the Times, which broke the Oxfam story.
Meanwhile, Sengalese vocalizer Baaba Maal has told BBC Newsnight he is standing downwards from his exercise equally a global ambassador to Oxfam after half dozen years.
The star said he found the sexual practice abuse claims "disgusting together with heartbreaking".
Describing the allegations equally "very sad", Maal said he was "disassociating" himself from Oxfam "immediately".

BBC News (14 February). 

Trinity Mirror CEO Simon Fox on buying the Express, Star together with OK

Times deputy editor Emma Tucker on how it set together its Oxfam abuse scoop together with how the newspaper's concern model accommodates investigative journalism.

BBC Radio 4 The Media Show (14 February, 16:30 GMT).

Oxfam scandal: United Nations assist agencies fearfulness backlash

Since the Oxfam scandal broke, Mr MacLeod has given numerous interviews, together with provided an assessment to the tabloid paper The Lord's Day which ran the headline "UN assist workers raped 60,000 people".
(...)
"Sensationalist together with bombastic, null creds," was the reaction of i woman someone assist worker with years of experience inward the field. "Not the experience of whatsoever assist means I have got ever worked with."

Imogen Foulkes for BBC News (15 February).

Oxfam scandal: Ex-Haiti manager denies paying for sex

In an opened upward missive of the alphabet to Belgian media (in Dutch), Mr Van Hauwermeiren said he had resigned for failing to command rumours most sexual practice scandals involving Oxfam inward Republic of Haiti together with for "feeding the rumours" through his ain human relationship with a Haitian woman.
"In early on 2011, I had to dismiss ii internationals because of clear indications (no witnesses) of prostitutes who had been lured to their rooms...
"I was nicknamed 'the terminator' equally I acted therefore severely inward this case."

BBC News (15 February).

Ex-Oxfam assist worker tells of sexual practice assaults yesteryear colleagues

Speaking anonymously to the BBC, the old junior assist worker said her colleague inward Republic of Haiti "literally merely pinned me upward against the wall - he was groping me, grabbing me, kissing me - I was merely trying to shove him off".
"I got him off eventually together with he got mad together with he threw his drinking glass at me together with it shattered on the floor," she said.
But the adult woman - who said it had been her dream to function for Oxfam - said the onrush continued inward a machine later.

BBC News (16 February). 

Oxfam Republic of Haiti scandal: Suspects 'physically threatened' witnesses

So it is trying to start recovering some of its reputation yesteryear beingness equally transparent equally it can. Hence the publication of the internal written report into what happened inward Republic of Haiti inward 2011.
In the curt term this may make to a greater extent than damaging revelations non only most the inappropriate behavior of staff but also the mismanagement together with lack of transparency yesteryear senior managers.
There are also probable to live to a greater extent than revelations when the Charity Commission together with MPs start out their ain investigations, equally good equally Oxfam's ain internal inquiry.
So few would disagree with the Prime Minister's spokesman when he says Oxfam has a long way to travel to restore populace trust.

BBC News/James Landale (19 February). 



MPs inquiry charity bosses

After iii hours of questioning, the evidence session on sexual exploitation inward the assist sector finishes.
The International Development Committee spent ii hours questioning senior Oxfam officials, including main executive Mark Goldring who apologised for the charity's treatment of sexual misconduct inward Haiti.
The commission also heard from Save the Children which has produced some proposals on safeguarding.

Aiden James, Esther Webber, Alex Partridge together with Paul Seddon for BBC News (20 February).  

Oxfam GB banned from Republic of Haiti after sexual practice scandal

Haiti's authorities said the conclusion was taken because of Oxfam's "violation of its laws together with serious breach of the regulation of human dignity".
Oxfam said it understood the decision, adding that the behavior of some staff was "completely unacceptable".
Haiti's conclusion follows a temporary suspension announced inward February.
The charity said it would travel on to function inward Republic of Haiti through affiliate members from Italy, Spain, together with Quebec.
Oxfam has been inward Republic of Haiti since 1978, together with increased its presence after the earthquake. But at that topographic point have got been no Oxfam GB staff inward the province since the suspension inward February.

BBC News (13 June).

Additional media reporting
Oxfam International boss says Republic of Haiti scandal 'breaks my heart'

Winnie Byanyima, who became executive manager of Oxfam International inward 2013, said she was saddened yesteryear what took seat inward 2010 together with that it could non take seat nether systems together with rules set inward seat since.
“I experience deeply, deeply hurt. ... What happened inward Republic of Haiti was a few privileged men abusing the real people they were supposed to protect - using the powerfulness they had from Oxfam to abuse powerless women. It breaks my heart,” Byanyima said inward an interview with Reuters TV inward New York.
“We desire to restore trust. We desire to construct that trust. We are committing to live honest, to live transparent together with to live accountable inward addressing this number of sexual misconduct. We are inward a dissimilar seat today,” she said.

Angela Moore for Reuters (12 February, 01:16 AM).

There's no excuse for Oxfam's Republic of Haiti shame - together with there's no argue to cutting its funding either

Charities aren't the most deviant organisations on Earth. They're merely the easiest ones to boot this week.
And inward an increasingly tribal together with divided world, it seems if you're Labour yous boot the rich perverts of the President's Club together with if you're Tory yous say it was fine because they were making donations patch groping immature women.
And when the Tories boot Oxfam for groping immature women patch spending donations, the Reds say it's non therefore bad because charity. No-one, anywhere on the political spectrum, asks why sexual practice abuse soundless happens inward the 21st century, inward therefore many walks of life, together with what tin can live done to halt it.
None of us are whatsoever meliorate for this. Haiti, meanwhile, has 40% unemployment, 58% poverty, together with 2.5m people soundless inward demand of humanitarian aid.
Aid which, today, people are demanding they non live given because it suits a wider political ideology. The only thing to a greater extent than sickening than sexual practice abuse are those people who exercise it to settle a score.

Fleet Street Fox for the Daily Mirror (12 February, 13:38) (yes, this is a tabloid media brand, but I idea I should include i slice for the sake of argument...).
 
Charity Commission opens statutory research into Oxfam together with sets out steps to improve safeguarding inward the charity sector

The Charity Commission, the independent regulator of charities inward England together with Wales, has today, 12 February, opened a statutory research into the charity Oxfam (registered charity number 202918). It comes after the Commission examined documents sent today yesteryear Oxfam regarding allegations of misconduct yesteryear staff involved inward its humanitarian response inward Haiti. The Commission has concerns that Oxfam may non have got fully together with frankly disclosed cloth details most the allegations at the fourth dimension inward 2011, its treatment of the incidents since, together with the impact that these have got both had on populace trust together with confidence.

Official declaration of the UK's Charity Commission (12 February).

Oxfam whistleblower: Allegations of rape together with sexual practice inward telephone commutation for assist (12 Feb pm GMT)


 
Oxfam should non live hung out to dry

Without within knowledge, I tin can only uncovering that, after Haiti, Oxfam established a caput of safeguarding position, created a whistleblowing hotline, sent safeguarding preparation teams to province programmes together with voluntarily included a detailed summary of reported safeguarding incidents inward its published trustees annual written report every year, available for all to read on the Charity Commission register of charities.
Oxfam’s transparency most the safeguarding issues it was having to bargain with was 2nd to none. Of 87 reported incidents inward 2016/17 some lxx per cent were inward the UK. It seems probable that the fact Oxfam recorded to a greater extent than safeguarding incidents than other NGOs is because it tried therefore difficult to create the climate inward which people felt able to written report incidents affecting them.

Andrew Hind for Civil Society Voices (14 February).

Sidas stöd till Oxfam stoppas tills vidare

Sida's back upward for Oxfam is discontinued for the duration of the investigation (from Google Translate from Swedish).

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (sida) (14 February).

The saints together with sinners of Oxfam

As for the foreign-aid budget, the Oxfam affair has emboldened those on the Conservative correct who desire to halt the commitment to pass 0.7% of gross domestic product on aid, which they consider extravagant at a fourth dimension of austerity. But other Tories, such equally Andrew Mitchell, a old DFID secretary, combat that evolution is i of the few areas inward which Great Britain is a global leader, spending to a greater extent than than whatsoever province bar America together with Germany. As the province retreats from the EU, it would live distressing if that role, too, were relinquished.

The Economist (15 February).

Oxfam Admits It Rehired Worker Dismissed Over Republic of Haiti Sexual Misconduct

Oxfam has said that a homo it dismissed over sexual misconduct allegations inward Republic of Haiti inward 2011 was after hired yesteryear the charity equally a consultant inward Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia later that year.
The charity called this conclusion “a serious error together with should never have got happened”.

Sara C. Nelson for Huffington Post UK (15 February).

Oxfam scandal highlights spectrum of abuse: local staff, recipients — assist workers, too

"Sexual exploitation inward humanitarian workplaces is incredibly widespread," she said inward an interview this week.
"This is a job that we've been struggling with for a long time."
The humanitarian sector's #MeToo moment, much equally inward other industries, is rooted inward abuse of powerfulness together with longtime impunity.
But it is farther singed yesteryear the fact that sexual predators operate best inward the chaos of disaster at a fourth dimension of great need, together with that some of them prey on some of the world's most vulnerable people.

Nahlah Ayed for the CBC (15 February).

The Oxfam scandal: How to maintain predators away from the most vulnerable

Oxfam denies a cover-up over the ouster of staff defendant of sexual abuse foremost inward Republic of Haiti together with elsewhere. Could the charity have got acted sooner?

Florent Geel, Cécile Andrzejewski, Tina Tinde & Gemma Houldey on France24 The Debate (15 February).

Oxfam Probing New Sexual Misconduct Claims equally Scandal Engulfs Aid Sector

Several other charities including Save the Children together with Doctors Without Borders are at nowadays investigating their ain treatment of abuse allegations. Many governments, including Haiti's, are urgently reviewing their relationships with assist organizations.
“There has been a working civilisation where this has been brushed underneath the carpet together with victims of this variety of abuse have got non had the chance to speak up. We’re already talking most an existing powerfulness imbalance that exists betwixt the assist giver together with the assist beneficiary. Now, if that’s abused, that sends out a really very, real negative message against the entire sector,” said Gemma Houldey of the University of Sussex, a old assist worker who at nowadays researches the working civilisation of the sector.

Voice of America News (21 February, 06:31 AM). 

'But what most the assist worker?'

As white women, nosotros make tend to cultivate a dual subjectivity. With an piece of cake sleight of the hand, nosotros rationalise the violence enacted yesteryear men on racialised bodies. And when challenged, nosotros are known for collapsing into distressed sobs, rather than listening together with engaging with why our words together with actions powerfulness live problematic. The location of trauma is shifted onto the weeping woman, together with those engaging are recast exterior of the bounds of "civility".

Lisa Tilly for Al-Jazeera (21 February). 

NGOs should non live allowed to operate inward a higher seat the law

There is a mutual thread that enables these abuses. The United Nations together with international NGOs similar Oxfam operate inward Republic of Haiti equally if the law did non apply to them. If charity workers were found to have got sexually abused children inward the UK, or the United Nations recklessly caused the decease of thousands of people inward New York, at that topographic point would live courtroom cases, jail time, damages awards. But inward Haiti, these same behaviours are treated equally internal disciplinary matters, or organisations reply with novel policy standards, patch skipping over accountability altogether.

Sienna Merope-Synge for Al-Jazeera (22 February). 

When Charity Workers Turn Predatory

There is no proposition that humanitarian agencies have got behaved anywhere close equally foully equally United Nations military machine peacekeepers, who have got been defendant for years of large-scale sexual abuse of populations they were sent to defend. Peacekeepers also brought cholera to Republic of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake there.

The Editorial Board of the New York Times (23 February).

I Worked For Oxfam For Eight Years. Its Aid Is Vital But The Sector Must Change

Despite beingness a younger woman, oft inward male-dominated settings inward the ‘field’, I never encountered sexual abuse. Throughout, my Oxfam experience was of working inward a respectful, nurturing surroundings (where my bosses, women together with men, supported me with the work-life juggle together with to ascent across ii motherhood leaves).
But merely because I didn’t reckon whatsoever abuse doesn’t hateful it wasn’t happening. I suspect that I was protected, at to the lowest degree partly, yesteryear my nationality, race, and, equally the years went by, relative rank. I know that some of my colleagues inward Oxfam, together with in all likelihood fifty-fifty to a greater extent than therefore inward the wider sector, had alone dissimilar experiences.

Maya Mailer for the Huffington Post UK (23 February, 16:23 GMT). 

Sweden is the foremost donor to resume Oxfam funding

"Oxfam has been able to demo that they have got strong rules together with routines that function inward practice,” Eldhagen said. She added that the conclusion to resume funding is of import for hundreds of thousands of people helped yesteryear the charity. “Fundamentally Oxfam is a goodness organisation that does an impressive job. We know that they take these issues seriously."

Vince Chadwick for DevEx (14 March).

After #oxfamscandal: Tough trade-offs ahead for the assist manufacture

But the assist manufacture is operating inward the same mediatized together with socio-political surroundings where other #MeToo moments together with movements have got been happening. This surroundings demands quick, visible together with clear-cut changes-and anything that has to make with evolution commonly industrial plant at a dissimilar speed. For substantial together with longer-term changes edifice upward structures volition require generous together with patient donors, a nuanced media coverage together with a full general populace willing to engage with complicated processes of social change. That’s a lot to enquire for. Paying for experts, paying for capacity development, paying for fourth dimension to acquire things correct together with paying for scaling upward organizational structures is non what donors are keen to fund together with Silicone Valley-type disruptors maintain promising.

Tobias Denskus for (23 February).

 What now? Beyond the #OxfamScandal

As many of us travel on to advocate for our country’s together with community’s correct to self-determination, nosotros have got experienced a gain of emotion – from anger, rage, together with frustration, to depression, grief, together with deep sadness – elicited yesteryear the real existent barriers to social alter set inward seat yesteryear the status quo. In the larger scheme of things, the Oxfam scandal doesn’t matter. Really, it doesn’t.
But create no mistake. We are real clear most what the gist issues are, i.e. a scheme of powerfulness imbalances – a do-gooder manufacture built on them – that likewise oft abuses us together with marginalizes our peoples at all levels.
Until these urgent injustices are honestly together with earnestly addressed yesteryear Global North together with Global South stakeholders, inward Republic of Haiti together with beyond, the United Nations troops, Red Cross, Oxfam, together with other scandals volition only travel on to unfold.

Marie-Rose Romain Murphy for How Matters (26 February).