Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

0031-0330 irl.qxd 2.3.2009 14:20 Page 163 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 .............................................................. 169 169 169 170 171 171 171 172 172 172 172 173 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...................................................................... 174 174 174 175 175 175 176 176 176 177 177 178 178 178