… after extending it to cover all non-directed weapons. The Conference voted the following … 1925, noting that the use of non-directed weapons which cannot be aimed with precision … to prohibit absolutely all recourse to such weapons and to the use of atomic energy or any …
… ICRC on 5 September 1945, in the light of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki … against war... The inevitable development of weapons, and so of warfare as a whole, has a … of the exploitation of the discoveries in nuclear physics, which permit the producing of …
… with the use of these toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement. It brought … Study]. 21 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. … effort against WMD, along with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the …
… believes that the use of toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement purposes should be … agents are defined in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention as “[a]ny chemical not … and use of other toxic chemicals as weapons – such as the highly potent …
… The 'Explosive Weapons with Wide Area Effects: A Deadly … to prevent or mitigate the impact of these weapons and better protect the civilian … of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) contamination as a result of …
… Kelisiana, you chaired the third session on weapons. What can national IHL committees do to ensure the application of IHL to weapons, new technologies and arms transfers? … which have otherwise been prohibited, such as nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, cluster …
… analysis of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This technical support was extended … and accession to the Treaty on the Ban on Nuclear Weapons. • Technical assistance given …
… of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by Mozambique • Donated computers, …
… by recent statements made with respect to nuclear weapons . Five years ago this month, as States … of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons , the ICRC recalled that …
… apace, with cyber operations, autonomous weapons and the use of outer space raising … by ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; and by including humanitarian … critical civilian infrastructure, such as nuclear plants, electricity grids and water …
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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.
