Confidentiality --- Thank you Shane, Marwa and Riyadh for this discussion. You are right, ICRC's way to operate is most of the time based on confidentiality. Confidentiality is the main factor which allows it to gain access to security detainees where other agencies don't. And as it is the case with other principles, either you are confidential, or you're not. Which is the reason why ICRC is a rather poor partner when it comes to inter-agencies cooperation.

Source author: Jean-Michel Monod jmmonod@yahoo.com