Now there’s even more controversy surrounding the More Than Me (MTM) organization, a charity based in the United States but operating in Liberia, where rape and sexual abuse cases involving students at its Monrovia academy became the subject of an October investigative report from ProPublica and Time. The in-depth reporting by Finlay Young…
It’s not just Liberia: Students in Senegal face high rates of sexual abuse and harassment from teachers, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. The findings of the 85-page “It’s Not Normal” research are based on interviews and discussions with more than 160 girls and young women in Dakar,…
The fallout for the More Than Me (MTM) organization, based in the United States but operating in Liberia, has led to swift changes following the release last week of new investigative reporting by ProPublica and Time on sexual abuse at the Monrovia MTM girls’ academy. The in-depth reporting by Finlay Young and…
A prominent Western charity that began its work to educate Liberian girls under former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf finds itself under intense media scrutiny again, following accusations of sexual abuse at its school. The More Than Me (MTM) organization, based in the United States but operating in Monrovia, is the subject…
The letter Pope Francis sent Monday to the world’s Roman Catholics acknowledged the latest round of child sex-abuse scandals in the United States – yet his words reached across the globe to African Catholics too, just weeks after the Church’s nuns also spoke out about sexual abuse at the hands…
The global NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has issued a statement saying it has been unable to confirm allegations that its logistics staff members working in Africa were commonly engaged in sexual misconduct, but takes the allegations seriously. The response Thursday followed a BBC report featuring interviews with former employees…