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monitors compliance with the GC, and takes an active role in promoting the welfare of protectedpersons.10.32.1 Transmission of Information Between Belligerents. The Protecting Power helpstransmit information between belligerents, including:• useful information regarding the geographic location of places of internment; 580• accountability information concerning measures that States have taken with respect toprotected persons in their power; 581• legal documents of internees; 582• copies of the records of the death of internees; 583• notification of measures taken by the Detaining Powers, immediately upon interningprotected persons, for executing the provisions of the GC that address relations betweeninternees and the exterior; 584 and• official translations of the GC and of laws and regulations that parties to the conflict haveadopted to implement it. 58510.32.2 Monitoring or Inspecting Compliance With the GC. The Protecting Powermonitors or inspects the Detaining Power’s compliance with the GC, including by:• visiting places where protected persons are and interviewing them; 586• receiving petitions and complaints from internees and periodic reports from the InterneeCommittees; 587• communicating with members of the Internee Committees and receiving the reasons forany refusal or dismissal of a member of an Internee Committee; 588580 Refer to § 10.11.1.2 (Sharing Information on the Location of Places of Internment).581 Refer to § 10.31 (National Accounting for Protected Persons in Its Power).582 Refer to § 10.24.2 (Legal Documents and Assistance).583 Refer to § 10.34.2 (Death Certificates).584 Refer to § 10.2.2.2 (Notification of Measures Taken for Implementing GC Provisions That Address RelationsBetween Internees and the Exterior).585 GC art. 145 (“The High Contracting Parties shall communicate to one another through the Swiss Federal Counciland, during hostilities, through the Protecting Powers, the official translations of the present Convention, as well asthe laws and regulations which they may adopt to ensure the application thereof.”).586 Refer to § 10.33.1 (Access by Protecting Powers).587 Refer to § 10.21.1 (Internee Right to Present Petitions and Complaints); § 10.21.3 (Periodic Reports by theInternee Committees).726

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