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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. ...
... In any camps in which women prisoners of war, as well as men, are accommodated, separate dormitories shall be provided for them. ...
ARTICLE-88: II. Disciplinary sanctions [go to this ARTICLE]
... Officers, non-commissioned officers and men who are prisoners of war undergoing a disciplinary or judicial punishment, shall not be subjected to more severe treatment than that applied in respect of the same punishment to members of the armed forces of the Detaining Power of equivalent rank. ...
... Officers and persons of equivalent status shall not be lodged in the same quarters as non-commissioned officers or men. ...