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thereof – directed towards addressing humanitarian insecurity, public advocacy and confidential negotiation. The fourth section extrapolates lessons from these earlier sections relevant to the broader discourse on security management within the humanitarian sector. The final section offers concluding remarks. Legal Accountability On 3 October 2015, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan came under aerial assault. As a series of sustained airstrikes targeted the main building, first hitting the intensive care unit, MSF staff
security forces turned security advisors spend countless hours training aid workers on ‘how to manage kidnapping crises’. The policy advocated almost routinely by these experts can be summed up as ‘Pay, don’t say’. In the eyes of private security firms, ‘kidnapping can be reduced to a simple business negotiation’ 2 that requires the strictest confidentiality. According to Alain Juillet, former intelligence director at the DGSE (the
victimisation in safe, non-judgemental and confidential spaces. Men/boy survivors disclose to people whom they trust – women and men – and in situations where they feel that disclosure will result in being understood and/or accessing assistance ( Touquet, 2018b ). The decision to disclose is highly individual and preferences regarding the gender of the service provider cannot be generalised, even within a specific setting or context. Indeed, when confidential, survivor
confidentially from within the European border agency, Frontex. With a headline alleging that search and rescue organisations on the Mediterranean were actively colluding with people smugglers, the eventual article read: Frontex put its concerns in a confidential report last month, raising the idea that migrants had been given ‘clear indications before departure on the precise direction to be followed in order to reach the NGOs
people heading to high- and very high-risk areas about the risk and the means being used to reduce it; and confidentially obtaining and managing proof of identity. The idea was not just to better prepare for managing a kidnapping but also to clearly inform volunteers that the risk existed. The resources available when I took the position in early 2012 had not changed since the position was created in 2006. There was one person positioned in the technical support and advocacy
the limitations of each and the benefits of analysing them together. Ethics To ensure data was collected ethically, enumerators and team leaders were trained on confidentiality, consent, conducting referrals for disclosure of violence and appropriate ways of engaging with communities during the data collection process, including ensuring privacy, managing engagement with children carefully in accordance with child safeguarding principles, and ‘do no harm’ principles. Ethics processes to ensure confidentiality, informed consent and safeguarding were
. Those standards applied to the confidentiality of the data, which could not be taken outside, the prohibition against using USB drives or connecting to the internet on work computers, etc. In the words of the data manager, Study data aren’t shared, because they are sensitive. They are also confidential. These are standards wherever clinical trials are done. It’s a loss for Epicentre if someone can get access and analyse them. That
immense suffering, many in MSF came around to the view that ‘silence kills’. This led to all MSF sections agreeing, in 1992, to remove the confidentiality provisions from the charter ( Weissman, 2011 : 183). And the Chantilly Principles, agreed in 1995, made public denunciation a key pillar of témoignage . But with the dawn of the new century, a series of internal and external factors forced a reboot of the concept, which had rarely inspired consensus
historical authenticity, not to justify the growth of the organisation. Bertrand: The archive you constituted is exceptional because it is rich while still being operational and commonplace. Fabrice: It is normal in fact? But what about the ethics of making people contribute to the archives? Bertrand: The archive as a common good is something that people understand, but issues of data confidentiality exist also in the archive and consenting to becoming part of an archive is
described affect both operational effectiveness and accountability, from the inclusiveness of needs assessments and feedback mechanisms to the provision of services and the implementation of behavior change campaigns. Confidentiality and conflict-sensitivity are impaired when not everyone can speak for themselves. Organizations were also concerned that the language barriers are impeding their capacity to communicate effectively