… 1/ Urban warfare, including Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas The urbanization of … of civilians from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, one of the major … critical civilian infrastructure, such as nuclear plants, electricity grids and water …
… surveillance and communications, as well as weapons platform targeting and guidance. This … the placement in orbit of objects carrying nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass … of Justice, Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, 8 July …
… efforts to work towards the elimination of nuclear weapons. "Urban warfare has a devastating …
… ceremony of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. "The choice to 'focus on people' is …
… of Justice, Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict, Advisory Opinion, …
… The Korean War is fought under the shadow of nuclear weapons at the start of the Cold War. ICRC …
… 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 …
… of warfare (for instance, the use of certain weapons). IHL is also known as 'the law of … the civilian population if dams, dykes and nuclear plants and other installations located … mines (1997), cluster munitions (2008), nuclear weapons (2017), as well as limitations …
… of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Only seven more ratifications …
… the widespread availability and misuse of weapons, upholding respect for IHL and … been as extensively regulated as it is today, weapons and munitions continue to flow, … destruction ( Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Art. 1), Biological Weapons …
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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.
