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Chapter 6, IV. Transmision of Information

Chapter 7, VIII. Transmission of Information

Chapter 8, V. Transmission of information

LEGAL SOURCE

  About POWs capture cards

    GCIII, 70 and Annex IV B

  Notification

    GCIII, 69, 94, 104, 107, 120 and 122

  Correspondence

    GCIII, 71, 76 and Annex IV C

    CIHL, 125

 About wounded, sick and shipwrecked recording of information

    GC I, 16 (see ICRC updated Commentary); GC II, 19 (see ICRC updated Commentary)

  Notification

    GC I, 16 (see ICRC updated Commentary); GC II, 19 (see ICRC updated Commentary)

  Transmission of death certificate and belongings

    GC I, 16 (see ICRC updated Commentary); GC II, 19 (see ICRC updated Commentary)

    CIHL, 114

 About civilian internees and protected persons internment cards

    GC IV, 106

  Notification

    GC IV, 136-138, 140

  Correspondence

    GC IV, 107

DOCUMENT

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CASES

ICRC, Iran/Iraq, Memoranda

S Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, The Ministries Case

Iran/Iraq, 70,000 POWs Repatriated

Case Study, Armed Conflicts in the former Yugoslavia (9 and 26)

Colombia Peace Agreement

UN, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances: Report on Mission to Serbia, including Kosovo

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