Oxfam's deputy chief executive has resigned, saying she takes "full responsibility" for failing to act immediately in the sexual misconduct scandal involving the charity's workers in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. Penny Lawrence, who was Oxfam program director at the time, said she was "ashamed that this happened on my watch." The charity said it fired four people and let three others resign after uncovering sexual misconduct, bullying, intimidation, and failure to protect staff. On Monday, Lawrence said the allegations of sexual misconduct were first raised about some Oxfam staff in an earlier mission in Chad. She threatened to pull public funding from Oxfam on Sunday unless the charity reveals everything it knows about the Haiti allegations.

Source: CBC News February 12, 2018 16:30 UTC