… aerial vehicle is also in common use. Second, weapons with autonomy in the “critical … legal and other issues related to autonomous weapons see ICRC, Autonomous Weapon Systems: … See ICJ, Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports …
… ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in August 2020, becoming one of …
… on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively … place thus far on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. The ICRC and the … Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (Oslo, 4-5 March 2013),47 and …
… of the 1977 Geneva Protocols and the 1981 Weapons Convention, London, British Institute … CUP, 2001, 300 pp. GILL Terry, “The Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion of the … Law, the International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons, Cambridge, CUP, 1999, pp. …
… for ending the suffering caused by these weapons. At its core are obligations intended … of economic and individual activities with weapons • Law of 9 March 1995 on … country of firearms, chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, ammunition or explosive …
… behaviour in environments contaminated by weapons and other efforts to assist the … in chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear events. The aim is to improve … in chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear events. The aim is to improve …
… such as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban … For example, at an AU event on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, it reminded …
… limiting or prohibiting the use of certain weapons, also considered part of IHL, include … • It is furthermore prohibited to use: – nuclear weapons, according to the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – anti-personnel mines, …
… on the Legality of the Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons of 1996 with respect to the ICCPR: The … 157-171. 52 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, 1996 I.C.J. …
… to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. In Côte d’Ivoire, the ICRC, the … awareness of the gravity of the issue of nuclear weapons. Numerous diplomats attended …
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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.
