The global attention of the #MeToo movement prompted the aid sector to acknowledge its own #AidToo crisis, but, half a decade later, the spotlight has dimmed, and sadly, the aid sector has seen minimal substantive changes.
Oxfam Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Simon Ticehurst speaks to the media in Port-au-Prince, on February 19, 2018. Oxfam issued its first direct apology to the Haiti government following a report detailing the prostitution scandal that shook the NGO and aid sector writ large, expressing its "shame" and vowing to do better.
The humanitarian sector’s structural factors — including predominantly male upper management, remote work settings, and blurred boundaries between work and recreation — create a breeding ground for abuse. Many survivors hesitate to rebuff a colleague’s advances or report an incident out of fear that doing so would directly impact their daily work or harm their long-term career prospects. Remaining in the same environment consistently makes it difficult to avoid the perpetrator.
The military highlights the roles of bravery, physical strength, and sense of duty as defining characteristics of men’s masculinities. The humanitarian sector is equally characterized by machismo, hyper-masculinity, misogyny, and racism, paired with a sense of power by senior officials. This leads to subtle and overt power plays in this field, often with men engaging in worse behavior than in other professions because of impunity.
“10 months later, I was informed that my assaulter would be returning as my supervisor. The CEO had come in from the United States, and I asked to speak with her. She told me to tell her exactly what had happened. I told her word for word. She then looked straight into my eyes and said, ‘You’re a woman. It happens. Deal with it,’ and proceeded to say that he told her I had lied about the entire incident, that his memory of the evening returned and he knew that I was lying.
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