FRANCAISAction Contre la Faim - Comments
3) Public relations
-Fearing expulsion, ACF generally avoids informing against the abuses its volunteers witness, the only exception to this being North Korea. The association prefers to leave human rights organisations give evidence against such exaction, though sometimes helping them to do so. In May 2001, an FIDH expert, Nicole du Roy, thus integrated ACF teams in Kabul as an agronomist. Such a cover enabled her to investigate the situation of Afghan women without compromising the activities of ACF. Likewise in 1998, ACF joined the French Coalition for the International Criminal Court. As to some volunteers, they preferred another course of action. In Bosnia, Auguste Fontaine, who was in charge of logistics, left ACF in October 1993 to rally for a few months the Moslem Army, where he helped lay mines against Serbs and Croatians.
