Africa: Exclusive - More Than 120 Aid Workers Sacked, Lost Jobs Over Sexual Misconduct in 2017 - Survey

London — The disclosures came as charities in the aid sector pledged to overhaul their approach to dealing with accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment

More than 120 staff from leading international charities were fired or lost their jobs last year over sexual misconduct, an exclusive survey showed on Wednesday as a sex scandal centred on British charity Oxfam swept through the aid sector.

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