Where’s the luvvie outrage on Oxfam?
TomorroW night, the great and the good of the film industry will gather for the Baftas in London. hollywood’s female stars will again be wearing black to show their support for the #meToo campaign, the international support group for women who have suffered sexual exploitation or assault.
They will also wear white roses as a sign of peace, hope and reconciliation. For those who forget to bring their own flower, white-rose brooches will be provided.
Which is all very commendable. But why is it that, in comparison to the howls of outrage that followed the harvey Weinstein scandal, we heard barely a squeak from the #meToo sisterhood when the veil was lifted this week on a truly terrible sex scandal?
We now know countless employees of oxfam and other aid organisations have, for years, been using the foreign aid industry as a front to procure sex from the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women and children.
Every day, there is a fresh revelation — only yesterday, we learned that a senior uNICEF children’s rights campaigner has been jailed for raping a 12-year-old boy.
As Professor Andrew macLeod, an aid expert who worked for the uN and the red Cross, wrote in this newspaper, this ‘ appalling state of affairs shamefully has been common knowledge in aid circles for 30 years’. Paedophilia, he added, is the word that dare not speak its name in the charity world.
What is so sickening is the hypocrisy of oh- so liberal quangocrats who preside over the charities.
shamelessly, they promote their Left- wing agendas about evil capitalism, austerity and food banks — indeed, oxfam produced a poster on these subjects in 2014.
Yet, at the same time, they turned a blind eye to the systematic abuse of the disaster-traumatised and vulnerable victims of tragedy they are meant to be helping.
Just like the #meToo luvvies who will be virtue- signalling tomorrow night at the Baftas, these charity bosses are more concerned to show how virtuous they are t h a n running efficient and disciplined organisations.