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Paraguay: women supporting their families from behind bars
Uzbekistan: ICRC decides to terminate visits to detainees
Yemen: Itidal's story
ICRC's work in detentionFacts and Figures
In 2012, the ICRC:
- visited 540,669 detainees in 1,744 places of detention in 97 countries and territories, including detainees under the jurisdiction of international courts and tribunals;
- monitored 26,609 of these detainees individually (including 626 women and 1,235 minors);
- registered and visited 13,569 detainees (including 283 women and 1,085 minors) for the first time in 2012;
- enabled 13,913 detainees to receive visits from family members;
- issued 17,358 detention attestations.
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VideoAfghanistan: Cold comfort in Kabul - an ICRC detention project
FilmAzerbaijan: combating multi-drug resistant TB in detentionReference documents
- UN standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners
- Third Geneva Convention, 1949
- Protection of detainees: the ICRC's action behind bars
- International Review of the Red Cross, 2005, No. 857 – Detention
- Visits to persons deprived of their freedom: the experience of the ICRC
- Persons detained by the US in relation to armed conflict and counter-terrorism – the role of the ICRC
- Confidentiality: key to the ICRC's work but not unconditional
- Protecting children when their parents are detained
- Detention by armed groups: overcoming challenges to humanitarian action
- ICRC visits to people deprived of their freedom
Publications More publications
Professional standards for protection work carried out by humanitarian and human rights actors in armed conflict and other situations of violence 
Water, sanitation, hygiene and habitat in prisons Special issue of the Review
International Review of the Red Cross More articles
Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine
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