Status jeńca wojennego. Wybrane zagadnienia

• Authors: Maja Głuchowska , Kamil Zeidler

Title variants

EN

THE STATUS OF PRISONERS OF WAR. SELECTED ISSUESS

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the most violent times, during a war prisoners were killed, kept or sold as slaves. While the concept of prisoner of war and their rights emerged in the seventeenth century, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that these rights began to be specified and an international definition attempted. The Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949 finally set the standards for the definition and treatment of prisoners of war. This article presents how, despite all international regulations, doubts over the status of prisoners of war still arise every time the world deals with an international conflict and how issues relating to the determination of the status should be resolved according to the Geneva Conventions.

Keywords

EN

PRISONER OF WAR; JUS AD BELLUM; INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW; COMBATANTS; MERCENARY; INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT

• Publisher: Akademia Marynarki Wojennej (Polish Naval Academy), Gdynia, Poland
• Journal: Międzynarodowe Prawo Humanitarne
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 183-201

Contributors

author

Maja Głuchowska

• Akademia Marynarki Wojennej, Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych, ul. Śmidowicza 69, 81-103 Gdynia, Poland

author

Kamil Zeidler

• Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Prawa i Administracji, Katedra Teorii i Filozofii Państwa i Prawa, ul. Jana Bażyńskiego 6, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland