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Items 22.12-22.15
Conventions for the Protection of War victims
(a) Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva 1949
(b) Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, Geneva 1949
(c) Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners
of War, Geneva 1949
(d) Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War, Geneva 1949
These four
Conventions (texts at Annex A) are
often known as the Geneva Red Cross Conventions. They
revised
and codified many of the rules concerning
The United Kingdom
international
humanitarian law.
ratified these Conventions. on 23 September 1957. The
ratifications included Hong
On ratification, the United
Kong
(reference at Annex B).
Kingdom made a number of
declarations and
of the Convention
confirmed a reservation made on signature
relative to the Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War (texts at Annex C) It is not
proposed that this reservation should continue to apply in
respect of the Hong Kong SAR after 30 June 1997.
2.
all
The
Conventions are broad in scope and apply in
cases of declared war or other armed conflict which may
arise between two or more
Contracting Parties even if a
formal state of war is not recognized. The Conventions
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