'Taxpayers and donors to WWF need to know that their money is not being misspent and supporting appalling human rights abuses.”
Chitwan National Park in Nepal, which WWF funds and where rangers have been accused of torture.
The UK government is under pressure to investigate the use of British aid money by the World Wide Fund for Nature after a BuzzFeed News investigationThe Department for International Development with WWF across Africa and Asia. Leading politicians from both sides of the Commons have now called on ministers to investigate whether the charity has funnelled public money to violent anti-poaching forces implicated in human rights abuses.
Stephen Twigg, the Labour chair of the international development committee which oversees DFID, said the government must respond immediately to the “extremely serious” revelations. “We must be sure that no UK aid funding has been used to support programmes that may have gone so very wrong in this way," he said.Priti Patel, a conservative MP who was secretary of international development until 2017, joined calls on DFID to investigate the “appalling and deeply disturbing” evidence.
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, told BuzzFeed News she found it “regrettable that such incidents have happened”. “I hope that the independent investigation will come up with initial evidence and redress should be provided to people who have been victimised,” Tauli-Corpuz said. “As special rapporteur I will monitor developments on this issue and would love to have more communications with WWF.”
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