Wer muss sich an die Genfer Konvention halten?

Wer muss sich an die Genfer Konvention halten?

Die erste und zweite Genfer Konvention von 1949 verpflichten die kriegführenden Parteien, Verwundete, Kranke und Schiffbrüchige sowie medizinisches Personal, Ambulanzen und Spitäler besonders zu schützen. Sie müssen von der Konfliktpartei, in deren Händen sie sich befinden, geborgen und gepflegt werden.

Was sagt die Genfer Konvention aus?

Bis heute ist die GFK das wichtigste internationale Dokument für den Flüchtlingsschutz. Die Konvention legt klar fest, wer ein Flüchtling ist, welchen rechtlichen Schutz, welche Hilfe und welche sozialen Rechte sie oder er von den Unterzeichnerstaaten erhalten sollte.

What is the Geneva Conventions Act?

1 This Act may be cited as the Geneva Conventions Act. 2 (1) The Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims, signed at Geneva on August 12, 1949 and set out in Schedules I to IV, are approved.

What is the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick?

This Convention represents the fourth updated version of the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick following those adopted in 1864, 1906 and 1929. It contains 64 articles. These provide protection for the wounded and sick, but also for medical and religious personnel, medical units and medical transports.

What protection does the Fourth Geneva Convention provide to civilians?

The fourth Geneva Convention affords protection to civilians, including in occupied territory. The Geneva Conventions, which were adopted before 1949. were concerned with combatants only, not with civilians.

What are the Geneva Conventions and the additional protocols?

The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the fighting (civilians, medics, aid workers) and those who can no longer fight (wounded, sick and shipwrecked troops, prisoners of war).