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Emergency sex: How helpers become perpetrators (Swiss Press Text 2019, by Matthias Knecht) - Swiss Press Award

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2019

Matthias Knecht

In Haiti, the local director of Oxfam abused his position to engage in paid sex. I subsequently investigated how aid organizations were dealing with the problem—conversations with experts in Geneva and phone calls with my former contacts in Haiti. The conclusion: The problem has existed for quite some time, and it's well known. But thanks to Oxfam, it's now being talked about.

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