Oxfam has dismissed 22 staff over allegations of sexual abuse in the last year.
The dismissals come as campaigners ask governments to take a closer look at the funding they provide to aid groups.
Reports of Oxfam staff’s inappropriate behaviour emerged during media spotlight on the dozens of allegations of sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination from women and men facing disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and other high-profile figures in media, politics and the arts.
Oxfam, which employs around 5,000 people, said it dealt with 87 claims of sexual exploitation and abuse involving its staff in one year to the end of April, a 36 per cent increase in one year.
“Donors and government entities need to ask more questions of the people that they are funding,” aid worker Megan Nobert told Reuters.
Ms Nobert founded the Report the Abuse campaign group after she was raped by a colleague while on assignment at a UN peacekeeping base in South Sudan.
Source: independent
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