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Prisoners’ objects: The collection of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2017

Roger Mayou
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The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum has a unique collection of prisoners’ objects – items made by conflict-related detainees and given to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegates who, in keeping with the ICRC's mandate under the Geneva Conventions, were visiting the prisons.

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museumprisonprisoners’ objectsICRCdelegatesvisits
Type
Voices and perspectives
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 98 , Issue 903: Detention: Addressing the human cost , December 2016 , pp. 749 - 760
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Copyright © icrc 2017 

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References

1 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956, Collins & Harvill Press, London, 1974, p. 17 Google Scholar.