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Chaplains, as defined by the present Convention, nor restrict the rights

which it confers upon them.
Wounded and sick, as well as medical personnel and chaplains, shall
continue to have the benefit of such agreements as long as the Covention
is applicable to them, except where express provisions to the contrary are
contained in the aforesaid or in subsequent agreements, or where more
favourable measures have been taken with regard to them by one or other
of the Parties to the conflict.
Non- ART. 7. – Wounded and sick, as well as members of the medical
renunciation personnel and chaplains, may in no circumstances renounce in part or in of
rights entirety the rights secured to them by the present Convention, and by the
. special agreements referred to in the foregoing Article, if such there be.

Protecting ART. 8. – The present Convention shall be applied with the co-operation
Powers and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers whose duty it is to
. safeguard the interests of the Parties to the conflict. For this purpose, the
. Protecting Powers may appoint, apart from their diplomatic or consular
. staff, delegates from amongst their own nationals or the nationals of other
. neutral Powers. The said delegates shall be subject to the approval of the
. Power with which they are to carry out their duties.
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SECTION III
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (IHL)
CHAPTER I IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW…..1083
CHAPTER II ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS………………………………………………1112
CHAPTER III NATIONAL MEASURE TO IMPLEMENT
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW………………………………1113
CHAPTER IV DISSEMINATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN
LAW……..1119
CHAPTER V DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL…………………………………1126

SECTION IV
ACTIVITIES DURING ARMED CONFLICTS
CHAPTER I PREPERATIONS FOR SITUATIONS OF ARMED CONFLICT…………….1137
CHAPTER II COOPERATION AMONG NATIONAL SOCIETIES DURING
ARMED CONFLICTS………………………………………………………...1138
CHAPTER III NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS…………………………...1139
CHAPTER IV ASSITANCE AND PRETECTION FOR CONFLICT VICTIMS…………...1142
CHAPTER V COMBATING HOSTAGE-TAKING, TORTURE,
FORCED DISAPPEARANCE AND PIRACY………………………………..1201
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1928 Statutes of the International Red Cross (revised in 1952 and in 1986)

1929 Geneva Conventions

- Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
[revision of the 1906 Geneva Convention] (First
Convention)
- Prisoners of War [supplements the 1899 Hague Convention No. II and
The 1907 Hague
Convention No. IV] (Second Convention)
- Official recognition of the red crescent emblem (first used in 1876)