A new initiative aims to adapt prisoner of war rules to digital realities and recent conflicts, with international consultations planned ahead of May\u2019s IHL conference.<\/p>\n
The Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War has developed a concept for amendments to the Third Geneva Convention, aimed at regulating the treatment of prisoners. The working title of the initiative is \u201cKyiv Protocol\u201d.<\/p>\n
Bohdan Okhrimenko, head of the Secretariat of the Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, spoke about the details in an interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndeed, the Geneva Conventions require revision and additions. The Coordinating Headquarters has developed a project for amendments to the Third Geneva Convention. We also have some proposals for certain sections of international humanitarian law regarding the detention of prisoners of war\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Bohdan Okhrimenko<\/p>\n
According to Okhrimenko, the current documents envisage paper correspondence of prisoners, while the digitization of all these processes has long since taken place.<\/p>\n
He said that the Coordinating Headquarters\u2019 proposals have the working title \u201cKyiv Protocol.\u201d The military-political leadership of Ukraine has considered them. In this regard, the Coordinating Headquarters has had communication with the ICRC, and in May a fourth conference on the improvement of international humanitarian law is anticipated.<\/p>\n
Prospects and Future Steps of the Kyiv Protocol<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time has long since come to review the rules for the treatment of prisoners of war, the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, which pertain to civilians,\u201d concluded Okhrimenko.<\/p>\n
This year the Coordinating Headquarters has returned 832 military personnel and civilians from Russian captivity. In total, since the start of the full-scale invasion, 9,048 citizens have been returned from Russian captivity.<\/p>\n
In February this year, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that about seven thousand Ukrainians remain in Russian captivity.<\/p>\n
Such initiatives aim to improve the protection of prisoners of war in accordance with modern international humanitarian law and adapt it to the realities of contemporary conflicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new initiative aims to adapt prisoner of war rules to digital realities and recent conflicts, with international…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,9680,33128,33127,1202,33129,33130,33131],"class_list":["post-59740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-geneva","tag-international-humanitarian-law","tag-kyiv-protocol","tag-kyiv-protocol-third-geneva-convention-prisoner-of-war-international-humanitarian-law-pow-protections","tag-news","tag-pow-protections","tag-prisoner-of-war","tag-third-geneva-convention"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116516176848639206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}