Australia’s peak body for the aid sector, the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), sent out a public apology for sexual misconduct committed by its aid workers on Nov. 20.
The apology comes after ACFID commissioned an independent review into sexual misconduct in May 2018. This had been sparked by widespread media reports in February this year about a senior staff of Oxfam UK who had paid survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake for sex. The media coverage put increased public attention on sexual misconduct in the aid sector.
