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… Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in New York, 27 November 2023 Mr … our meaningful collective efforts to advance nuclear disarmament. We are here with a common …
… among them are due to cancer. Yet the two nuclear bombs which caused such untold human … to most of the bombs in the arsenals of nuclear-armed States today. What more … ensure the complete elimination of nuclear weapons? Before it is too late. The horror …
… to review progress on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament has ended in failure. The …
… to take urgent action to scrap all nuclear weapons. The call comes ahead of a crucial … will review progress on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and eliminating them from …
… decisive action to prohibit and eliminate weapons that have unacceptable humanitarian … and Red Crescent Movement to advocate that nuclear weapons must never be used again and … Crescent Movement’s call to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. In 2017, 122 States …
… Statement Nuclear Weapon Risks Symposium, United Nations … carried out to further the understanding of nuclear weapon risks. UNIDIR’s work builds on … of the increasing danger that nuclear weapons will be used – intentionally, …
… and land. It had come from the testing of a nuclear weapon. This scene was not a singular … event for the region. For over 12 years nuclear testing was carried out in the … Cross Society. This is the reality of nuclear weapons, and nuclear testing. Today is the …
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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.
