Britain’s biggest Catholic aid charity, Cafod, has been suspended from an international scheme which aims to protect aid beneficiaries from sexual exploitation ...
The UK is to help launch a global register of dangerous criminals with the aim of preventing them finding their way into the aid sector, in the wake of the aid ...
An acclaimed US charity operating in Liberia has admitted to major failings after girls at a school set up to save them from a life of sexual exploitation were systematically raped....
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Ravi Karkara, an Indian national based in New York, was dismissed from his post at UN Women on Friday following an investigation lasting nearly 15 months....
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More than 30 countries that support a set of principles calling for U.N. peacekeepers to protect civilians in armed conflict are asking the United Nations to go a step further and hold peacekeepers accountable if they fail to do so....
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle worked with Karkara during his time as vice-president of the European Youth Forum and later as chair of a UN Major Group for Children and Yo...
An interim report into the risk of sexual exploitation in the Australian aid sector has found there are “clear risk factors for sexual misconduct” but that Aust...
GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations agencies must improve ways for staff to report harassment, retaliation and other forms of misconduct and safeguard whistle-blowers who are prepared to reveal cases of abuse, an independent oversight body said on Mond...
We conducted our investigation after a committee of MPs urged agencies and charity organisations to confront the horror of sexual exploitation in their professi...
Sexual exploitation and abuse is "endemic" across the aid sector, according to a new report from MPs. The International Development Committee says charities ca...
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says it received 70 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the second quarter of 2018 — 43 involving U.N. personnel, 24 involving people working for U.N. partner organizations, and three pertaining to U.N....
Aid workers at charity Medecins Sans Frontieres used local prostitutes while working in Africa, whistleblowers have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Fem...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti’s government on Wednesday said it was withdrawing Oxfam Great Britain’s right to operate in the Caribbean country after allegations of sexual misconduct by some of the charity’s staff....
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Children worldwide are more likely to be preyed upon by residents of their own homeland than foreign tourists seeking illicit sex, anti-trafficking experts said...
The fallout from the sexual misconduct scandal at the charity Oxfam was “completely distorted and out of all proportion” according to a former secretary of stat...
The UN has defended a decision not to publish the names of organisations implicated in a dossier detailing allegations of widespread sexual abuse by aid workers, saying it was taken in the interests of protecting child witnesses....
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Thousands of women and girls who believed they were being led to safety from Boko Haram by Nigerian security forces were instead systematically abused in exchan...
People demonstrate in Paris during a nationwide day protest by French public sector employees and public servants against the overhauls proposed by French Presi...
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Sex offenders and paedophiles are travelling to the world’s conflict zones to prey on vulnerable children, the National Crime Agency has warned....
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