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75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a nuclear threat returns

… Movement urges all nations to end the nuclear era. Seventy-five years ago, on the … a terrifying new weapon on Hiroshima. The nuclear bomb wiped out the city, instantly … comes even as the risk of use of nuclear weapons has risen to levels not seen since the …

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Third report on the EU guidelines on promoting compliance with IHL

… in the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), its Protocols, the Group of … on, the application of IHL. These include the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the … of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – EU General Statement …

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Experts' workshop report on IHL and Islamic Law in contemporary armed conflicts

… 23 CONDUCT OF HOSTILITIES: LAWFUL WEAPONS AND METHODS OF … electricity networks, dams, and chemical or nuclear plants, they could cause civilian … seven Muslimmajority States among the 44 “nuclear-capable” States whose ratification is …

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Catalogue of publications and films in Arabic

… The Missing 131 ‫ مطبوعات‬- ‫األسلحة‬ Weapons - Publications 145 ‫ أفالم‬- ‫األسلحة‬ … الحكومات بنودها‬ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is the first globally …

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Nuclear, Radiological, Biological and Chemical Events

Nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical …

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Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Response: Introductory Guidance

… of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) agents. In such situations, …

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Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems

… to mitigate the risks posed by autonomous weapons. It proposes three types of control … Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk, vol. 1, Euro-Atlantic … Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk: Vol. I Euro-Atlantic …

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Call to governments: Work together to stop cyber attacks on health care

… of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) Mikhail …

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An inevitable trajectory of humanitarian needs?

… over human life. Powerful explosive weapons are deployed in urban areas with … will be a catastrophic third world war or a nuclear attack in their lifetimes. But it is …

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Majority of millennials see catastrophic war as real possibility, and believe there should be limits

… believe it is more likely than not that a nuclear attack will occur in the next decade. … And although 84 percent believe the use of nuclear weapons is never acceptable, 54 percent …

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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.

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International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.

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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.