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MANY aid workers are “too scared” to report cases of sexual abuse and exploitation while working in developing countries in fear of losing their jobs, a Commons committee heard today.
Dr Miranda Brown told MPs that it was “just too dangerous” for aid workers, many of them junior staff on short-term contracts, to whistleblow when abuse is inflicted on vulnerable aid recipients — overwhelmingly women and children — by their colleagues.
She told the international development committee: “Aid workers know what is going on. They see it. But are not in power to report it.”
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