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'Predators are attracted to aid work'
Report into sexual abuse in the aid sector says to check aid workers' criminal records
A report into sexual abuse in the aid sector has recommended introducing criminal records style checks for aid workers. The Chair of the International Development Committee, Stephen Twigg, told Today: "We do know that predators are attracted to aid organisations, we do know we have a very serious endemic problem." In February, the Times revealed that senior staff at Oxfam had paid survivors of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti for sex.
(Image: Oxfam logo, credit: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images)
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