Let's Go Down the Rabbit Hole!

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Not wishing to disrupt Mystic's flow regarding the 'Q/anon' postings, here's a couple of
update's on the Oxfam scandal in the form of rebuttals.

Although, saying it would be 'impractical' to ask volunteers and employees to refrain from
hiring prostitutes and having an ex-Director comment that not all the allegations are correct,
aren't really good back-answers!
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Oxfam: Ex-director hits out at 'lies and exaggerations'

'The former Oxfam director at the centre of a sex scandal that has engulfed the UK charity says some
allegations of his use of prostitutes are "lies and exaggerations".

Roland Van Hauwermeiren, 68, said some details were "correctly described" and vowed to share his
version of events.


Roland 'Not-Every-Week' Van Hauwermeiren.

He has been accused of hiring prostitutes while delivering aid in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
A UK charity watchdog is investigating claims that Oxfam covered up the case.

Mr Van Hauwermeiren, who was director of Oxfam's operations in Haiti, has been accused by UK newspaper
The Times of using prostitutes at a villa rented for him by the charity.

"Not that I deny everything. There are things that are correctly described. But I also read a lot of lies and
exaggerations. Party every week? Chic villas? Women paid with money from the organization?"

In his first comments since the claims emerged, he said "it was especially bad" that his family did not want to
see him anymore, and that his lawyer would soon release an official statement.
After that, he said, he hoped to be left alone.

Since the revelations emerged, Oxfam - one of the UK's biggest charities - has confirmed that sexual misconduct
occurred in Haiti, and that several staff members were dismissed or resigned after an internal investigation.
Mr Van Hauwermeiren left his post amid the inquiry in 2011.

Oxfam's deputy chief executive Penny Lawrence resigned in the wake of the scandal, and the UK charity commission
launched a statutory inquiry amid claims of cover-up.

The commission is also looking into claims that Mr Van Hauwermeiren was employed by Oxfam two years after he left
another aid agency because of concerns about his behaviour. The Belgian aid worker has also been accused of using
prostitutes while working for British health charity Merlin in Liberia from 2002-04, a former colleague told the IRIN website.
Merlin later merged with Save the Children, which says it does not have access to Merlin's records.

He was then hired by Oxfam as a country director in Chad. Under his leadership there, in 2006, staff used prostitutes in the
charity's premises, according to UK newspaper Observer, claims that Oxfam said it could not corroborate.
From Chad he moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti.

After he resigned his Oxfam post in Haiti, Mr Van Hauwermeiren ended up taking another high-profile position, as the head
of mission for Action Against Hunger in Bangladesh...'

BBC:

Oxfam did not ban staff from using prostitutes as it would infringe their 'civil liberties' .

'Oxfam refused to ban staff from using prostitutes saying it would "infringe their civil liberties", a training manual has revealed. 
The guidance, still available on the charity's website, says that they "strongly discourage" their workers from paying for sex
but a total ban would be "impractical".

The same manual reveals that Oxfam has "dismissed staff for exploiting or abusing beneficiaries or members of the local
community in virtually every recent humanitarian response".  The document has emerged as the charity faces a growing scandal
over its handling of use of prostitutes by its staff in Haiti, where sex work is illegal and some of whom were alleged to be underage.
The charity has since faced revelations of sex for aid and abuse of teenagers in British charity shops. 

In guidance, issued in 2006, Oxfam trainers address the issue of why, if they took a strong stance on gender equality, they did not
ban sex workers. Yoma Winder, Oxfam's current global adviser for partnerships and accountability, writes:
"We haven't banned the use of prostitutes, but we strongly discourage it.
We don't ban it, because we cannot infringe on people's civil liberties,
and we know it would be impractical to think we could enforce a total ban. 

"We also, in a number of countries, support partner organisations that work with sex workers to ensure their basic rights; so we are
definitely  not in any position to tell sex workers how to live their lives."

She notes that using prostitutes could lead to reputation damage and security issues and there is a "fundamental principle that any
transaction of this sort is the result of an unequal power dynamic and is therefore exploitative"...'

The Telegraph: