IFRC diplomatic status --- Thanks Gerard and John. This problem for IFRC is due, in part, to the fact that IFRC in general has only sought the status in countries which are in the throes of disaster or special difficulty. As getting the status can depend on legislation, which is usually old and out of date, it is hard to get things well understood. When I was at IFRC at the outset of IDRL we saw disaster law as something which might resolve the issue but that hasn't happened yet.

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