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Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims › Title 1

SECTION 2 — Personal field of application

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1. This Protocol shall be applied without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, sex, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, national or social origin, wealth, birth or other status, or on any other similar criteria (hereinafter referred to as "adverse distinction") to all persons affected by an armed conflict as defined in Article 1. 2. At the end of the armed conflict, all the persons who have been deprived of their liberty or whose liberty has been restricted for reasons related to such conflict, as well as those deprived of their liberty or whose liberty is restricted after the conflict for the same reasons, shall enjoy the protection of Articles 5 and 6 until the end of such deprivation or restriction of liberty.
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Section 2 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims /akn/un/act/treaty/1949-08-12/geneva-conventions-additional-protocol-1949
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