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New video explains ICRC's role in development and implementation of IHL
… Using the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a case study, the film looks at the … Pacific, ICRC Lou Maresca, adviser in the Weapons Contamination Unit, ICRC …
A humanitarian perspective on military AI
… issues, including on the impact of weapons and current disarmament initiatives. On … used to direct decision-making on the use of nuclear weapons, potentially exacerbating the risks of use of nuclear weapons with the catastrophic …
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 …
Young Humanitarian Journalists Competition 2022
… and 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Entries in this category must … • Next steps towards a world without nuclear weapons • A personal experience of an …
Talking about the laws of war in a peaceful Pacific
… and adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This landmark international agreement … testing, stockpiling, use or threat to use nuclear weapons is completely unacceptable. …
“Lest the ghosts of Guernica keep haunting us…”
… war too late. Today, even the threat of a nuclear war, and the total destruction of … towards achieving the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons suddenly seems to have become a race …
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Please don't make any more like us. We don't want any more hibakusha This is the prayer of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - also known as "hibakusha". They came together to share their …
Young Humanitarian Journalists Competition 2021 gets rolling
… issues of concern, from the rise in global nuclear tensions to the events unfolding in … "International humanitarian law (IHL): The nuclear ban treaty". For the first theme, … on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), a topic of major interest to …
Humanitarian action and the pursuit of peace: Speech on the anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize
… But with the arrival of modern warfare and weapons of mass destruction – and the … this attitude no longer held up. The use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at … 1962 marked a turning point. The push for nuclear disarmament after 1945 is well known. …
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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.