'They lead the life of small gods' - how aid agency failings end in exploitation
Behind the sex parties and scandals in Haiti lies a culture of secrecy and lack of diversity
The year after Oxfam secretly forced out top officials for using prostitutes in Haiti, a UN agency fired one of its own senior figures after allegations of sexual misconduct with survivors of the 2010 earthquake.
The organisation ordered a rapid investigation in 2012 after internal whistleblowers reported that the man had brought young women from camps where homeless quake survivors lived to participate in sex parties for his friends.
“Some very brave women [within the organisation] wrote to headquarters saying this guy was grooming young beneficiaries, internally displaced people, for sex parties and one of them had become pregnant. He was effectively running a brothel in the house,” said a senior UN staffer who asked not
