{"id":2086,"date":"2018-10-03T20:29:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2018-10-03T20:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:29:02","slug":"these-cases-of-abuse-and-corruption-in-ngos-have-shaken-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/10\/03\/these-cases-of-abuse-and-corruption-in-ngos-have-shaken-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"These cases of abuse and corruption in NGO’s have shaken the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are supported by the nobility of their causes, as well as their prestige, credibility and respect for their values \u200b\u200bas an organization. If they can not sustain these elements, they face the loss of support that allows them to continue their work.\u00a0Currently, many NGOs are facing a severe crisis of credibility, due to the scandals that have shaken many of these organizations.<\/strong>\u00a0Here we present some of the most talked about cases.<\/p>\n

Millions of dollars that do not reach their destination<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2018, La Prensa of\u00a0Honduras released some cases of corruption of several\u00a0NGOs that obtained millions of dollars that did not reach their destination: the most vulnerable and in need.<\/strong>\u00a0According to the Honduran newspaper, between 2010 and 2014, almost\u00a012 million dollars<\/strong>\u00a0were extracted from the treasury\u00a0through the Dibattista and Todos Somos Honduras foundations that obtained contracts for projects that were not carried out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

El N\u00f3mada of Guatemala\u00a0also reported another case uncovered in the Central American country. The Centro de Acci\u00f3n Legal, Ambiental y Social\u00a0(CALAS) of Guatemala, dedicated to defending indigenous people against mining companies, is in trouble due to mismanagement of resources, among other things.<\/p>\n

Between sex scandals and corruption cases<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In February of the same year, the sex scandal of Oxfam, an NGO with a global presence, was revealed to the world. According to El Confidencial of\u00a0Espa\u00f1a,\u00a0members of the organization accessed sexual services paid for with NGO resources during missions in Haiti and Chad.<\/strong>\u00a0The common denominator was a former director of the NGO: Roland van Hauwermeiren.\u00a0Oxfam allowed impunity and even the accused persons served other NGOs without Oxfam preventing it in any way,<\/strong>\u00a0explained the Spanish newspaper.<\/p>\n

Hauwermeiren later worked for another NGO: Action Against Hunger in Bangladesh.\u00a0To make matters worse, Oxfam’s international president and former finance minister in the cabinet of former president \u00c1lvaro Colom, Juan Alberto Fuentes, was arrested for a corruption case in Guatemala.<\/p>\n

“Blue helmets and the allegations of sexual abuse in missions of peace”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The blue helmets have a large number of complaints of abuse. Only between April and June of this year, the United Nations (UN) received 70 complaints of sexual abuse committed by its staff and close collaborators,<\/strong>\u00a0according to La Vanguardia of\u00a0Espa\u00f1a. Some of these cases are being investigated in the UN and others in Member States, who are the ones that contribute their personnel to support the missions.<\/p>\n

Therefore, there is no unique training or strict controls that allow the United Nations to guarantee conduct or actions. That is why it has been difficult to detect and investigate cases of abuse, especially those committed in Africa, said the same media.\u00a0The secretary of the UN, the Portuguese Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, has placed this issue among his priorities.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The future of humanitarian work<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What happened in Honduras and Guatemala throughout the year is a reference to the reality of the corruption of some NGOs in their work. However, many organizations such as\u00a0Doctors Without Borders and Save The Children have raised their voices and tightened their controls, said La Tercera of\u00a0Chile. The newspaper cited\u00a0as an example a statement to Reuters by the director of international programs of Save The Children:\u00a0“The protocols of Save The Children are very strict: no adult can ever be alone with a child, there must always be at least one adult in the room or vehicle.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are supported by the nobility of their causes, as well as their prestige, credibility and respect for their values \u200b\u200bas an organization. If they can not sustain these elements, they face the loss of support that allows them to continue their work.\u00a0Currently, many NGOs are facing a severe crisis of credibility, due to the scandals that… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-latin-american-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}