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IV
GENEVA CONVENTION
RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS
IN TIME OF WAR OF 12 AUGUST 1949
PART I
General Provisions
Article 1
Respect for the Convention .......................................................
Article 2
Application of the Convention ..................................................
Article 3
Conflicts not of an international character ...............................
Article 4
Definition of protected persons ................................................
Article 5
Derogations................................................................................
Article 6
Beginning and end of application .............................................
Article 7
Special agreements.....................................................................
Article 8
Non-renunciation of rights........................................................
Article 9
Protecting Powers ......................................................................
Article 10
Activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross ....
Article 11
Substitutes for Protecting Powers ..............................................
Article 12
Conciliation procedure ..............................................................
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PART II
General Protection of Populations against certain Consequences of War
Article 13
Field of application of Part II.....................................................
Article 14
Hospital and safety zones and localities....................................
Article 15
Neutralized zones.......................................................................
Article 16
Wounded and sick: I. General protection..................................
Article 17
II. Evacuation .............................................................................
Article 18
III. Protection of hospitals .........................................................
Article 19
IV. Discontinuance of protection of hospitals...........................
Article 20
V. Hospital staff ..........................................................................
Article 21
VI. Land and sea transport ........................................................
Article 22
VII. Air transport .......................................................................
Article 23
Consignments of medical supplies, food and clothing .............
Article 24
Measures relating to child welfare .............................................
Article 25
Family news................................................................................
Article 26
Dispersed families......................................................................
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