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ARTICLE-4
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... 5.
Members
of
crews
,
including
masters
,
pilots
and
apprentices
, of the
merchant marine
and the
crews
of
civil aircraft
of the
Parties to the conflict
, who do not
benefit
by more
favourable treatment
under any other
provisions
of
international law
. ...
ARTICLE-14
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Prisoners of war
are entitled in all
circumstances
to
respect
for their
persons
and their
honour
.
Women
shall be treated with all the
regard
due
to their
sex
and shall in all
cases
benefit
by
treatment
as
favourable
as that
granted
to
men
.
Prisoners of war
shall retain the full
civil
capacity
which they enjoyed at the
time
of their
capture
. The
Detaining Power
may not
restrict
the
exercise
, either within or without its own
territory
, of the
rights
such
capacity
confers
except in so far as the
captivity
requires. ...
ARTICLE-84
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... A
prisoner of war
shall be tried only by a
military court
, unless the
existing
laws
of the
Detaining Power
expressly
permit
the
civil courts
to try a
member
of the
armed forces
of the
Detaining Power
in
respect
of the particular
offence
alleged to have been committed by the
prisoner of war
. ...
ARTICLE-127
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... The
High Contracting Parties
undertake
, in
time of peace
as in
time of war
, to
disseminate
the text of the present
Convention
as widely as possible in their respective
countries
, and, in particular, to
include
the
study
thereof in their
programmes
of
military
and, if possible,
civil instruction
, so that the
principles
thereof may become known to all their
armed forces
and to the entire
population
. ...
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