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Article 122 - National Information Bureaux

from Part V - Information Bureaux and Relief Societies for Prisoners of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

Article 122 regulates the establishment and functioning of national informationbureaux. The main task of these bureaux is to manage and process information,including its collection, centralization and transmission, about personsprotected by international humanitarian law who have fallen into enemy hands.Articles 136–139 of the Fourth Convention contain parallel provisions concerningpersons protected under that Convention.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 1709 - 1743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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