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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-21
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... Upon the
outbreak of hostilities
, each
Party
to the
conflict
shall notify the
adverse
Party
of the
laws
and
regulations
allowing or forbidding its own
nationals
to
accept
liberty
on
parole
or
promise
.
Prisoners of war
who are paroled or who have given their
promise
in
conformity
with the
laws
and
regulations
so notified, are bound on their
personal
honour
scrupulously to fulfil, both towards the
Power
on which they depend and towards the
Power
which has captured them, the engagements of their
paroles
or
promises
. In such
cases
, the
Power
on which they depend is bound neither to require nor to
accept
from them any
service
incompatible with the
parole
or
promise
given. ...
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