Related Rule
Madagascar
Practice Relating to Rule 134. Women
Madagascar’s Military Manual (1994) states: “Women … shall be the object of a particular respect.” It adds that, as prisoners of war, “women must be treated with due regard to their sex”.
Madagascar, Le Droit des Conflits Armés, Ministère des Forces Armées, August 1994, Fiche No. 2-T, § 27.
Madagascar’s Military Manual (1994) provides that maternity cases and pregnant women are included in the same category as the wounded and sick.
Madagascar, Le Droit des Conflits Armés, Ministère des Forces Armées, August 1994, Fiche No. 4-SO, § B.
