… Ceremony of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the 74th Session of the United … ago, of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, marked the beginning of the …
… commitment to contribute to a global ban on nuclear weapons by signing and fully ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on the sidelines of the United …
… means and methods of warfare and of weapons of a nature to cause unnecessary … a more somber anniversary: 75 years since nuclear weapons were first used, in Hiroshima … humanitarian assistance to the victims of a nuclear attack, and the general …
… 22-10-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – A nuclear bomb hasn’t been detonated in war in … and people should care about the menace nuclear weapons pose,” said Enrique Mestre, lead for …
… effects of hostilities; the use of explosive weapons in populated areas , and the … overall military strategy – even on use of nuclear weapons ‑ as well as specific … in orbit around the earth of objects carrying nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass …
… Production and Stockpiling of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, 1993. 17/22 … 2006. - T reaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017. (Pending entry into … 2013. - T reaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017. (Pending entry into …
… Guide to the Legal Review of New ، 2006 ،Weapons, Means and Methods of Warfare: … on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: the Court recalled that the … Justice, Legality of the threat or the use of nuclear weapons, Advisory Opinion, 8 July …
… Appeal on nuclear weapons delivered at the Council of Delegates … of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons are still in existence, many …
… 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 …
… 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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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
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.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
