No ban on prostitutes

OXFAM bosses refused to ban staff from having sex with prostitutes as it would ‘infringe on their civil liberties’, it emerged last night.

A staff training guide said it would be impractical to enforce a total ban on its aid workers holding sex parties in disaster zones.

Instead, staff were ‘strongly discouraged’ because it would be ‘exploitative’. The advice is set out in a two-hour training course for all staff called ‘Preventing sexual exploitation and abuse’.

Last night a spokesman said its current ‘code of conduct forbids Oxfam staff paying for sex’.

The 200 manual was published as claims were being made about Oxfam aid workers sleeping with prostitutes in Chad. The manual said sexual abuse took place in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nepal and the Democratic Republic of Congo.