7 hours agoThe Independent: The workers of “Oxfam” had sexually exploited the women of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)After a scandal involving humanitarian workers who paid women in Haiti for sexual services, it was found that this had happened elsewhere. Workers of the Oxfam humanitarian organisation had to help local people in the midst of war or natural disasters, but in fact the opposite occurred in some [...]
Workers of the humanitarian organisation Oxfam had to help local people in the midst of war or natural disasters, but in fact, the opposite happened in some countries.
However, there is a growing amount of information, evidence and abuse of the position of these workers, which includes paying minors for sexual services, reports “b92”, Periscopi broadcast.
This was happening in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to the British newspaper “The Independent”.
“During my first trip to Kosovo in 1999, shortly after the end of the war, the driver told me that a large number of brothels were being built there near countries where members of humanitarian organisations and the UN mission were present, because many people who were stationed there often paid girls for sex,” said journalist Julie Bindel.
She added that without many people entering public homes, “despite the fact that many of them were there to advise local authorities about strategies to fight human trafficking. ”
Bindel also cited the case when Katrin Bolkovac, who monitored the UN mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, indicted its superiors for an unfair dismissal in 1999, after reporting that members of the mission paid sexual services, violated minors and participated in trafficking in human beings.
A former Philadelphia police officer and UN human rights investigator in Bosnia in 2009 David Lembin investigated the charges against six officials from Romania, Fiji and Pakistan who were stationed in Bijeljina, accused of selling women as slaves.
Lembin reportedly found a large number of evidence to open the investigation, but then faced physical threats and his authorities thwarted his goal.
For Haiti, Oxfam's director admitted that he and humanitarian workers in the area used prostitutes and paid them from the humanitarian aid fund.
All of this happened in Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake, in which more than 220,000 people were killed, over 300,000 injured, and about one million more were left homeless./Periscopi/
