United Nations

UN Convention (I)
for the Amelioration
of the Condition of
the Wounded and Sick
in Armed Forces in the Field


Signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 21 October 1950.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


PREAMBLE

The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Governments represented at the Diplomatic Conference held at Geneva from 21 April to 12 August 1949, for the purpose of revising the Geneva Convention for the Relief of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field of 27 July 1929, have agreed as follows:

CHAPTER I

General Provisions


CHAPTER II

Wounded and Sick

CHAPTER III

Medical Units and Establishments

CHAPTER IV

Personnel

CHAPTER V

Buildings and Material

CHAPTER VI

Medical Transports

CHAPTER VII

The Distinctive Emblem

CHAPTER VIII

Execution of the Convention

CHAPTER IX

Repression of Abuses and Infractions

FINAL PROVISIONS

(Here follow signatures)


ANNEX I

Draft Agreement Relating to Hospital Zones and Localities