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Newshour: Oxfam In Government Crisis Talks Over Abuse Scandal

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Oxfam In Government Crisis Talks Over Abuse Scandal

12/02/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Oxfam In Government Crisis Talks Over Abuse Scandal

Around 120 charity workers in Britain were reportedly accused of sexual abuse

Around 120 charity workers in Britain were reportedly accused of sexual abuse in the past year.

The Government has threatened to cut aid funding to charities that fall short on safeguarding and do not co-operate with authorities investigating alleged sexual abuse. Concerns over exploitation by aid workers were sparked after it emerged Oxfam workers who were accused of hiring prostitutes in earthquake-torn Haiti had been able to go on and work for other aid agencies. 

Also in the programme; An upsurge in fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has provoked the migration and exodus of thousands of people to neighbouring Uganda; and Rio De Janeiro's mayor slashes funding for top samba school but they insist it would not get in the way of their extravagant carnival parades.

(Photo: A Haitian woman walks past destroyed buildings on the main road in downtown Port-Au-Prince, after a major earthquake. Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

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