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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSave the Children staff furious over ‘global legacy’ award for Tony Blai
The charity Save the Children faces a backlash from staff after it presented Tony Blair with a global legacy award in New York last week despite privately acknowledging that he is a controversial and divisive figure.
Amid widespread criticism on social media, many of the charitys staff have complained that the presentation of the award has discredited Save the Children (STC). An internal letter, which gathered almost 200 signatures including senior regional staff in the first six hours of dissemination, said the award was not only morally reprehensible, but also endangers our credibility globally, and called for it to be withdrawn.
It said that staff wished to distance themselves from the award and demanded a review of the charitys decision-making process.
We consider this award inappropriate and a betrayal to Save the Childrens founding principles and values. Management staff in the region were not communicated with nor consulted about the award and were caught by surprise with this decision, it said.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/25/save-the-children-furious-charity-global-legacy-tony-blair
djean111
(14,255 posts)from Blair's rich banker friends.
eta - Even worse, it was given to him be the US arm of STC.
samsingh
(17,599 posts)who's the imbecile who made this happen?
bvar22
(39,909 posts)*A WAR started with LIES
*Several hundred THOUSAND people killed unnecessarily
*A Million innocents maimed and disfigured for life
*Millions of innocents displaced and their homes destroyed
Wat to GO, Tony!