Detention and advocacy --- Thank you Chloe for this remark. ICRC will not use advocacy in order to gain access to security detainees, mainly because the name of the game for the Institution is to remain confidential on matters of detention. Our detention reports are confidential and given only to the detaining authority (and will be made public only if this detaining authority is publishing first parts (generally the good parts) of the report. Therefore the ICRC prefers it when the public advocacy is performed by organisations such as Amnesty or Human Rights Watch, without any mention of the ICRC. It reinforces indirectly our quiet diplomacy approach.

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