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Article 23 - Security of Prisoners

from Chapter I - General Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

The Detaining Power is responsible for the treatment of the prisonersof war in its power. Article 23 sets out several rules that seek toensure the security of prisoners of war.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
, pp. 730 - 747
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Dinstein, Yoram, ‘Issues Relating to the Use of Civilian “Human Shields”’, Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Vol. 44, 2014, pp. 273291.Google Scholar
Maia, Catherine, Kolb, Robert and Scalia, Damien, La Protection des Prisonniers de Guerre en Droit International Humanitaire, Bruylant, Brussels, 2015, pp. 124128.Google Scholar
Schmitt, Michael N., ‘Human Shields in International Humanitarian Law’, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 47, 2009, pp. 292338.Google Scholar

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