Oxfam in trouble over prostitutes

I'd rather put a bullet in my fucking head.

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You know you want it, dawg.
 
Penny Mordaunt: Oxfam 'failed in moral leadership' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43020875



Charity workers in Haiti used prostitutes and now there is a major backlash.


Why do prudish people's morals need to dictate what is acceptable?

People have sex, always have and always will. It's time that people mind their own business. These workers volunteered to go and help clean up the mess in Haiti. From everything I've read, I have yet to find an accusation of anyone using government funds to pay the prostitutes. All I've found is that the sex took place in the villa, which was financed by the government funded charity- an expense that was occurring anyway.



This story pisses me off. First of all, there was a group who went to help the people of Haiti. The could have told the Haitians to go fuck themselves and washed their hands of it, as many Haitians actually did. Many Haitians were granted a temporary stay in USA, but refused to return to Haiti after their visas had expired. They have abandoned their own country, which I find disgusting. No one is pointing the finger at any of them. TheHaitians who refuse to go back and rebuild their own country are not being criticized.

The only people being criticized are the volunteer workers.... Because they had sex?

Big fucking deal.

So you don't see the problem with traveling to a country on behalf of an organization that considers prostitution a human rights violation and then hiring hookers? Really??
 
I know on their Aussie site the have the Aboriginal flag with the message that Australia Day has to be changed! Bastards! Oxfam shouldn't be political imo. I won't be donating to them anymore.[not that i ever had of course!]
 
Prostitution should be legal and the workers should be thanked, not criticized for participating in adult activities.
the charity workers should be thanked for engaging in exploitative sex tourism?
 
Is this trolling? Prostitution is illegal, the girls were reportedly under age (age of consent is 18) and sex tourism is inherently exploitative.

illegal in haiti does not mean it is enforced might as well be legal.
 
that's low, man

If I thought there was any chance in hell of her being aware of this thread I would never use that photo to make that joke. Hopefully that's obvious.
 
Also, full disclosure, I was going to go in the opposite direction with the joke and typed "pretty Haitian girls" in Google. But when I started scrolling through and found that one, my lower comic angels kicked in and I could not resist.
 
Going to a country just to exploit its disaster for sex would be wrong
But they went there to help and in their spare time screwed willing people for cash..seems an important difference!

At what point after a disaster is screwing prozzies no longer exploititive and juat regular prostituion use ? I mean if i go to new orleans and screw a hooker there does that not count? What about in serbia?
 
The reports about abuse and under age prostitutes (aged 14-16) came from other Oxfam workers. These were the allegations that sparked off their internal investigation and lead to those involved being fired.
Regardless of your personal views on prostitution, you have to admit that travelling to disaster struck areas and illegally paying survivors for prostitution when you're there to provide charitable aid, is inherently exploitative. Perhaps you've read about the prostitution of Syrian/Iraqi war refugees?
That's probably why it's against UN guidelines for charities and why Oxfam added it to their code of conduct.
That's the line, right there. If they signed on under a code of conduct that explicitly forbids it, there's not really any defense.
On its own, with fully willing participants and no pimps involved, prostitution in isolation is fine by me. It's all that goes with it typically that makes availing yourself of it a dicey decision, particularly under these circumstances.
 
Going to a country just to exploit its disaster for sex would be wrong
But they went there to help and in their spare time screwed willing people for cash..seems an important difference!

At what point after a disaster is screwing prozzies no longer exploititive and juat regular prostituion use ? I mean if i go to new orleans and screw a hooker there does that not count? What about in serbia?
Oxfam views prostitution as a human rights violation. Sooooo.....
 
the charity workers should be thanked for engaging in exploitative sex tourism?




They should be thanked for their efforts on the clean up. I'm pretty sure you knew what I meant.

What they do during their time off is up to them.


"The allegations of misconduct by Oxfam staff in Haiti date from 2011 but came to light in a report on the Times on Friday, which said the charity's country director for Haiti,
Roland Van Hauwermeiren, was alleged to have used prostitutes at a villa rented for him by Oxfam in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake."


That's what it says in the article I posted. He used prostitutes, not a big deal. I've already said that I wouldn't condone using underage prostitutes, but the article doesn't mention that.



Also, what is "exploitative sex tourism"?
 
Not only did they help rebuild the country, but also stimulated the local economy?

Good job.
 
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