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RETIRED ARCHBISHOP AND Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has announced that he has quit his role as an ambassador for Oxfam after the British charity was hit by sexual misconduct allegations.
“The Archbishop is deeply disappointed by allegations of immorality and possible criminality involving humanitarian workers linked to the charity,” said a statement from his office in South Africa.
Last weekend, an investigation by The Times found that young sex workers were hired by senior staff in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake which devastated the island.
The deputy chief executive of the UK branch resigned on Monday over the charity’s handling of the scandal.
It was revealed in The Times’ report that groups of young prostitutes were invited to homes and guesthouses paid for by the charity for sex parties, according to one source who claimed to have seen footage of an orgy with sex workers wearing Oxfam t-shirts.
Also today, Oxfam Ireland emailed supporters to assure them that the incident “does not represent Oxfam or what we stand for”.
“The deplorable actions of a small number of people will not stop the vital work against poverty and injustice worldwide that you contribute to in supporting our campaign actions,” said Jim Clarken, the chief executive of Oxfam Ireland.
Oxfam Ireland has a zero-tolerance approach to sexual misconduct and will not stand for any kind of harassment of staff, partners, volunteers or those we serve.
He encouraged supporters to get in touch with any questions or concerns they may have.
- © AFP, 2018. Additional reporting Aoife Barry.
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Yet he hasn’t walked away from the Roman Catholic clergy.
@Richie Stanford: He’s Anglican!
@Richie Stanford: Morto!
@Richie Stanford: cringe
@Richie Stanford: yikes
@Richie Stanford: *insert face palm meme*
@The Girl: Strange no one has heard of the scandals in the Anglican and other Protestant churches, maybe something to do with the anti Catholic news media in Ireland.
Grow up. It has nothing to do with the “Anti Catholic Media” you can’t seriously be suggesting non Catholic Christian churches are getting a free pass from the paedophile paedophile enabling and paedophile protection solely for the purpose of attacking the Catholic church in the media. You sound like a child in the school yard. Tommy was Bold as well
@Stephen Winterson: no it’s because they don’t have forced celibacy so they have no issues resulting from it.
Bigger scandals in Haiti than this one,Clinton foundation about to be found out for what it is….when the British prime minister and church leaders step up…something coming down the tracks.
@Tomas: Really… Because after 25 years and nearly half a billion dollars they’ve not been able to pin a thing on her… What have you got that’s going to change that ? A YouTube video, a Brietbart article… something from Fox News.. oh I know… another memo?
@Vigo the Carpathian: Nice one.
If he was Irish he’d hang on and just deny, deny, deny
@Dave O’Hanlon: And his church would then transfer him to prey on some other unfortunate country’s children.
Just shut it down , the people’s trust has been broken so badly. I have always checked out charities before contributing. If the CEO’s are taking home more than 150k p.a. then something’s not right. But this is on a different level altogether. People that were spending your money on prostitutes are an absolute disgrace.
@Colette Kearns: Where does it say they were using charity money for prostitutes??
@Conor Murphy: Think it was on the “This Morning “ program! With Eamon Holmes & his wife.
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