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Oxfam staff bullied witness in prostitution case: inquiry

By AFP
February 20, 2018

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday described the behaviour of some Oxfam staff in Haiti as “horrific” after the charity released an internal report revealing that a former top official admitted to paying for sex and three staff threatened a witness.

“The behaviour that we’ve now discovered was horrific,” May said during a visit to a London school. “It was far below the standards that we expect for the charities and the NGOs that we’re working with.”“We will not work with anybody who does not meet the high standards that we set and we believe are important,” she added, after the charity was suspended from bidding for new government funding.