The UK government has warned all charities that receive British funding to tackle sexual wrongdoing among staff or face having their aid cut, amid further fallout from a prostitution scandal involving Oxfam workers in Haiti in 2011.
UK Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt said the government would cut its funding for the charity unless executives could prove in a meeting with her on Monday that they had the moral leadership for it to continue.
The charity should immediately hand over its entire 2011 investigation into the sexual misconduct to the appropriate prosecuting authorities and the Charity Commission, she said.
“With regard to Oxfam and any other organization that has safeguarding issues, we expect them to cooperate fully with such authorities, and we will cease to fund any organization that does not,” she said in a statement.
The warning follows reports in The Times that young sex workers were hired by…