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 14:19 Page 61 II GENEVA CONVENTION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF WOUNDED, SICK AND SHIPWRECKED MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES AT SEA OF 12 AUGUST 1949 CHAPTER 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 Field of application .................................................................... Article 5 Application by neutral Powers................................................... Article 6 Special agreements..................................................................... Article 7 Non-renunciation of rights........................................................ Article 8 Protecting Powers ...................................................................... Article 9 Activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross .... Article 10 Substitutes for Protecting Powers .............................................. Article 11 Conciliation procedure .............................................................. 64 64 64 65 65 66 66 66 66 67 67 CHAPTER II Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Article 12 Protection and care.................................................................... Article 13 Protected persons....................................................................... Article 14 Handing over to a belligerent .................................................... Article 15 Wounded taken on board a neutral warship............................. Article 16 Wounded falling into enemy hands........................................... Article 17 Wounded landed in a neutral port ............................................ Article 18 Search for casualties after an engagement ................................ Article 19 Recording and forwarding of information................................ Article 20 Prescriptions regarding the dead............................................... Article 21 Appeals to neutral vessels .......................................................... 68 68 69 69 70 70 70 70 71 71 CHAPTER III Hospital Ships Article 22 Notification and protection of military hospital ships ............. Article 23 Protection of medical establishments ashore............................ Article 24 Hospital ships utilized by relief societies and private individuals of: I. Parties to the conflict .................. 72 72 72