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Oxfam New Zealand [70] is an aid and development organization and affiliate of Oxfam International. [71] Oxfam NZ is also responsible for delivering Cyclone relief in several countries in the Pacific region. [72] Oxfam New Zealand's work is made possible by supporters, interns, staff, volunteers, board and overseas partners.
A boycott was launched in the United States on July 4, 1977, against the Swiss-based multinational food and drink processing corporation Nestlé.The boycott expanded into Europe in the early 1980s and was prompted by concerns about Nestlé's aggressive marketing of infant formulas (i.e., substitutes for breast milk), particularly in underdeveloped countries.
The legal process is ongoing and he has not been convicted of any charges. He resigned the same day as president of Oxfam International. [23] Upon his resignation, Oxfam International's executive director, Winnie Byanyima, issued the following statement: “Oxfam does not yet know the nature of formal charges, if any, against Dr. Fuentes Knight.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, the international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt, said Oxfam had failed in its "moral leadership" over the "scandal". Mordaunt also said that Oxfam did "absolutely the wrong thing" by not reporting the detail of the allegations to the government. [14]
Stanford’s scheme was an international scandal, as he was a dual citizen of the United States and Antigua and Barbuda, and had branches of his bank on the island and in Venezuela. He was ...
[7] In 2018 Shukri wrote an open letter to Archbishop Desmond Tutu in which he addresses Tutu’s recent stepping down as an ambassador for Oxfam after the sex scandal that rocked the international charity. In the letter, Shukri states that he himself is a survivor of child sexual abuse by priests from the Church of England, and asks why ‘the ...
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Following the resignation of Penny Lawrence, Oxfam's deputy chief executive, Robert Halfon, Conservative MP and Chairman of the Education Select Committee, accused Stocking of trying to “escape responsibility for the Haiti prostitution scandal." Halfon criticized the former Oxfam head who, he stated, had behaved “outrageously” in allowing ...