Senegal’s IHL Manual (1999) provides that one of the fundamental guarantees common to the IHL conventions and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights is that “persons deprived of their liberty shall receive, to the same extent as the civilian population, food and drinking water, shall benefit from healthy and hygienic living conditions and shall be protected against the climate and the dangers of military operations”. It also provides: “They shall be allowed to receive individual and collective relief.”