Oxfam GB has been banned from operating in Haiti after its staff were accused of sexual misconduct following the 2010 earthquake.
Oxfam said it would continue to work in Haiti through affiliate members from Italy, Spain, and Quebec.
Oxfam has been in Haiti since 1978, and increased its presence after the earthquake. But there have been no Oxfam GB staff in the country since the suspension in February.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44474211
(notice nothing on children?)
Oxfam sexual abuse scandal points to a larger problem among aid workers
According to Andrew MacLeod of the Hear Their Cries advocacy group, as shocking as Oxfam’s revelations are, such sexual exploitation is only the “tip of the iceberg” of pervasive sexual abuse among aid workers in the developing world. According to him, there is a growing realization today that the worst crimes of child abuse and child rape by aid workers make up a substantial percentage of sex abuse accusations against aid workers from many nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations and peacekeeping forces
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-oxfam-sexual-abuse-scandal-0220-20180214-story.html
▼ Sackajahweeda
GOOD SHAME ON THEM AND PROTECTION OF THE ABUSERS!!! You were there to help children not to have a full service menu of your choice I mean some of the things I read about the sex abuse in Haiti made me want to murder people! Having literal waiting lists for rooms at night. Rooms that were allocated for charity work!! They were using them like an hour rate seedy no tell motel to ABUSE CHILDREN!! I mean I swear my blood boils thinking about the gall of these disgusting men. On the effing clock paid to rape by the very charity they represent!
▼ shewhomustbeobeyed
bbc - https://archive.li/Qt55Q
chi-trib - https://archive.li/yTkHG
▼ new4now
Thanks once again :)
▼ ESOTERICshade
It looks more and more these days like these aid organizations are often nothing more than child procurement services. According to the statistics I have seen, kidnapping children for forced labor on plantations, in mines, sugar cane fields, etc...is perhaps larger than trafficking children for sex slaves. No telling how many children these people steal every year.
Wonder exactly what that means?
▼ lamplight
It could mean that they will continue to get children to abuse through affiliate members but not set foot on Haiti soil. Kick the entire Oxfam group out of every country!
▼ turitelle
I'm guessing they plan to funnel their perverts through the Italy, Spain and Canada branches of oxfam into Haiti. Those corporate NGO's and church charities are nothing more than ways and means for abusers to get to kids. All those charities that dash out to impoverished countries "for the children" are suspect in my view until proven otherwise. If all the money that was donated to those crooks was actually used for good, there wouldn't be so many desperate people in the world. Prime example is how the Clintons and their cronies bilked Haiti and enriched themselves.
▼ new4now
I think that is something we need to find
all these arms to the same group
instead of expanding, they grow arms to hide
▼ carmencita
Haiti's government said the decision was taken because of Oxfam's "violation of its laws and serious breach of the principle of human dignity".
Oxfam has been in Haiti since 1978, and increased its presence after the earthquake. But there have been no Oxfam GB staff in the country since the suspension in February.
▼ new4now
Nothing on children in the article
they mention prostitutes
whitewashing it
ok we got busted folks, but it was prostitutes
so mad I could spit
▼ carmencita
I know as I read further down I was shocked. I couln't believe so I looked back and no. Not a word about the children. BBC is still covering for them.