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"UN: Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, 1949" [2005] ELECD 310; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 87

Section Title: UN: Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, 1949

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

87. UN: Geneva Convention for the Amelioration
of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and
Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at
Sea, 1949

Commentary: Article 43 of this Convention specifies the identification system for
hospital ships (white exterior surfaces, large dark red crosses and national flags). See
further, Hague Convention (VI) relating to the Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the
Outbreak of Hostilities 205 Consol TS 305 (entry into force 1910); Hague Convention
(VII) relating to the Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships, 205 Consol TS 319
(entry into force 1910).



Chapter II: Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked

Article 14
All warships of a belligerent Party shall have the right to demand that the wounded, sick or
shipwrecked on board military hospital ships, and hospital ships belonging to relief societies
or to private individuals, as well as merchant vessels, yachts and other craft shall be surren-
dered, whatever their nationality, provided that the wounded and sick are in a fit state to be
moved and that the warship can provide adequate facilities for necessary medical treatment.

Article 21
The Parties to the conflict may appeal to the charity of commanders of neutral merchant
vessels, yachts or other craft, to take on board and care for wounded, sick or shipwrecked
persons, and to collect the dead. Vessels of any kind responding to this appeal, and those
having of their own accord collected wounded, sick or shipwrecked persons, shall enjoy
special protection and facilities to carry out such assistance. They may, in ...