"British MPs probing sexual abuse in the international charitable sector are investigating an unpublished UN report from 2001 naming 15 major aid organisations implicated in a "sex-for-food" scandal, The Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The charities were listed in a probe by UN and Save the Children officials who collected testimony from children in West Africa that aid workers had traded food for sex, according to the newspaper.
The Times obtained a copy of the 84-page report which is now also in the hands of lawmakers.
The UN released a summary of the investigation in 2002 but the full report naming the agencies was never made public. It has now been passed to the British parliament's international development committee, the newspaper said.
MPs are probing the aid sector following revelations earlier this year of a prostitution scandal in Haiti involving staff from British charity Oxfam."
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"In Summary
Ruud Lubbers, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005, at the time rejected the possibility of child sexual abuse by members of his own staff as "gossip." "
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"British MPs probing sexual abuse in the international charitable sector are investigating an unpublished UN report from 2001 naming 15 major aid organisations implicated in a "sex-for-food" scandal, The Times newspaper reported on Tuesday. The charities were listed in a probe by UN and Save the Children officials who collected testimony from children in West Africa that aid workers had traded food for sex, according to the newspaper. The Times obtained a copy of the 84-page report which is now also in the hands of lawmakers.
The UN released a summary of the investigation in 2002 but the full report naming the agencies was never made public. It has now been passed to the British parliament's international development committee, the newspaper said. MPs are probing the aid sector following revelations earlier this year of a prostitution scandal in Haiti involving staff from British charity Oxfam."
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"In Summary
Ruud Lubbers, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005, at the time rejected the possibility of child sexual abuse by members of his own staff as "gossip." "
Lubbers was forced to resign in 2005 due to a sexual harrassment complaint against him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Lubbers
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