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    The 1949 Geneva Convention outlines protections for non-combatants during war, including wounded or sick soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians. It establishes that the first Geneva Convention protects soldiers injured on land, the second protects military personnel at sea or shipwrecked, the third protects prisoners of war including military or civilian captives, and the fourth protects civilians including in occupied territories. Protections granted to prisoners of war by the Geneva Conventions must remain with them for the duration of their captivity.

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    The 1949 Geneva Convention outlines protections for non-combatants during war, including wounded or sick soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians. It establishes that the first Geneva Convention protects soldiers injured on land, the second protects military personnel at sea or shipwrecked, the third protects prisoners of war including military or civilian captives, and the fourth protects civilians including in occupied territories. Protections granted to prisoners of war by the Geneva Conventions must remain with them for the duration of their captivity.

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    The 1949 Geneva Convention outlines protections for non-combatants during war, including wounded or sick soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians. It establishes that the first Geneva Convention protects soldiers injured on land, the second protects military personnel at sea or shipwrecked, the third protects prisoners of war including military or civilian captives, and the fourth protects civilians including in occupied territories. Protections granted to prisoners of war by the Geneva Conventions must remain with them for the duration of their captivity.

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    THE 1949 GENEVA CONVENTION (almost all countries is party to the GC)

    The first Geneva Convention protects wounded and sick soldiers on land during war.
     The second Geneva Convention protects wounded, sick and shipwrecked military
    personnel at sea during war.
     The third Geneva Convention applies to prisoners of war. a non-combatant—whether a
    military member, an irregular military fighter, or a civilian—who is held captive by a belligerent
    power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

    - The protections given prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions remain with


    them throughout their captivity and cannot be taken from them by the captor or given up
    by the prisoners themselves. 
     The fourth Geneva Convention affords protection to civilians, including in occupied
    territory.

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