Oxfam aid workers accused of sexual misconduct

Bosses at anti-poverty charity Oxfam are due to meet Government officials today to discuss allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its aid workers.

The staff members have been accused of using prostitutes in Haiti following the earthquake which devastated the country in 2010. Paying for sex is illegal in Haiti and against Oxfam’s code of conduct.

Three men resigned while four men were sacked during Oxfam’s own review.

There are concerns that some of the victims of the aid workers could have been underage. “The impact of sex tourism laws make it unlawful for anybody to have sex with children under the age of 16 anywhere in the world or aid, abet or support that,” Andrew MacLeod, the former Chief of Operations of the UN’s Emergency Coordination Centre, told the Today programme.