Fourth Geneva Convention
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1949 treaty
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- treaty
- Part of
- Geneva Conventions
- Country
- Vatican City
- Main subject
- Geneva Conventions
- Location
- Geneva
- Image
- Warsaw 1939 refugees and soldier.jpg
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- WikiProject Human rights
- publication date
- 1949-08-12
- title
- Konvencija o zaščiti civilnih oseb med vojno
- work available at URL
- ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Treaty.xsp?documentId=AE2D398352C5B028C12563CD002D6B5C&action=openDocument
- effective date
- 1950-10-21
- depositary
- Swiss Federal Council
- point in time
- 1949-08-12
- signatory
- 190
- language of work or name
- Czech
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Encyclopedic overview
The Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (French: Convention relative à la protection des personnes civiles en temps de guerre), more commonly referred to as the Fourth Geneva Convention or Geneva Convention IV (abbreviated as GCIV), is one of the four treaties of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. It was adopted on 12 August 1949, and came into force in October 1950. While the first three 1949 conventions dealt with combatants, Geneva Convention IV was the first to deal with humanitarian protections for civilians during war. GCIV defines humanitarian protections for civilians. There are currently 196 countries party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, including this and the three other treaties. Parties to Geneva Conventions and Protocols
Parties to GC I–IV and P I–III
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