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Now playing Next world news Aid workers' sexual misconduct unveiled by researchers using DNA Foreign aid workers who fathered children abroad are being revealed by using publicly available DNA databases. Test cases in the Philippines found men from Australia, Canada, the US and Britain had fathered children in the country while doing foreign aid work. 05/01/2021
Now playing Next world news World's richest 1% produced 'double the CO2 of the poorest half' Oxfam International and the Stockholm Environment Institute made the claim in a new report published on Monday (September 21). 21/09/2020
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Now playing Next Haiti Oxfam 'had culture of tolerating bad behaviour' - sex scandal report A report into the sexual exploitation of earthquake victims by Oxfam workers in Haiti says the charity had a "culture of tolerating bad behaviour". 11/06/2019
Now playing Next world news Failure to tax the rich hits girls hardest: Oxfam "We all suffer, but it's women and girls who suffer most" 21/01/2019
Now playing Next world news Poverty report: 26 individuals own the same as poorest 50% of humanity Fortune favours the rich with 26 people owning the same as the poorest half of the human race, according to a recent report from Oxfam 21/01/2019
Now playing Next Green News NGOS sue French government over not doing enough to tackle climate cha Four NGOs including Oxfam and Greenpeace have decided to take the first act of "a climate justice action" against the French State. 21/12/2018
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