The Fourth Geneva Convention, formally the Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and also known as Geneva Convention IV or 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. The first three 1949 conventions dealt with combatants, so this was the first of the Geneva treaties to set out humanitarian protections for civilians during war. Its rules apply to the wide group of states that are party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which numbered 196 countries as of 2010.
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adopted on 12 August 1949, and came into force in October 1950
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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.
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