UK Tells Charities: No More Cash If You Don’t Come Clean on Abuse

UK Tells Charities: No More Cash If You Don’t Come Clean on Abuse
An Oxfam sign is seen on a kiosk that was used to distribute water in Corail, a camp for displaced people of the 2010 earthquake, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 13, 2018. Reuters/Andres Martinez Casares
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LONDON—Britain will stop funding overseas aid agencies if they fail to learn the lessons from Oxfam’s sex abuse scandal, and the government will discuss possible prosecutions with law enforcement, the British development minister said on Wednesday.

Penny Mordaunt told anti-poverty groups that Britain - one of the world’s most generous foreign development donors - would cut funding if they could not show they were clear of the kind of abuse that has rocked Oxfam.