A planned Oxfam #IBelieveHer campaign aimed at supporting survivors of sexual assault and harassment was shelved last fall after allegations surfaced that a senior Oxfam staffer had assaulted a colleague. She said that in 2010, during a meeting at headquarters in Oxford, a senior Oxfam official tried to force himself on her. Concerns long before HaitiAgams's case is still the subject of an internal Oxfam investigation into how it was handled by the leadership, including its chief Mark Goldring. It also makes it unclear when the #IBelieveHer campaign might be resurrected. Wegerif said he believed the #iBelieveHer campaign was cancelled "because Oxfam realized they were not living up to the very standards that their campaign was going to be demanding of us.

Source: CBC News February 22, 2018 09:00 UTC