![]() ![]() ![]() It is freely available online in an article-by-article format in the ICRC’s Treaties and Commentaries Database. ![]() The updated Commentary on GCIII was published in English, and translations into the other five official UN languages as well as Ukrainian are planned. Recently, the ICRC published its updated Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention (GCIII) relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, which contextualizes the 1949 Convention for contemporary conflicts. Prisoners of war in contemporary armed conflict: Interpreting GClll 70+ years after its negotiation. ![]() In this post published to mark the anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions Ellen Policinski, a Legal adviser working on the ICRC’s project to update the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, highlights some aspects of the Third Geneva Convention (GCIII) that may be particularly relevant today, including some of the findings of the updated ICRC Commentary, and points readers towards some resources that digest the findings of this once-in-a-generation study. For example, what is the role of social media in respecting their dignity? What is the role of the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency and States’ National Information Bureaux today? Given developments in international human rights law and international and domestic criminal law, may PoWs be tried for their conduct during hostilities and, if so, what guarantees are they entitled to? Recent events have brought PoWs back into the fore of the public consciousness, in particular how they must be treated and what rights they are entitled to in contemporary conflicts. Too often the term “prisoner of war” (PoW) conjures up black-and-white images of soldiers detained in the Second World War. ![]()
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