… the effects of the use of explosive weapons in populated areas in light of the … reflect the International Court of Justice Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, which held … areas 16 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. …
… 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. …
… principles and rules governing the choice of weapons and prohibits or restricts the … their ammunition. The destructive power of nuclear weapons puts them in a category of … finds it difficult to envisage how any use of nuclear weapons could be compatible with the …
… war. These restrictions apply to the type of weapons used, the way they are used and the … and a series of agreements on specific weapons. The ICRC has been involved in the … dangerous forces (namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations). Means …
… Conference on International Terrorism: The Nuclear Dimension: Washington, D.C., 24-25 … IHD working paper. - Regulating conventional weapons in the future: humanitarian law or …
… London/Ref. HIST 3088/25 The first poisonous weapons emerged in the fighting on the western … in 1915. During the following two years these weapons were extensively used by the warring … which strike indiscriminately – such as nuclear and biological weapons and landmines – …
… or limitations on the employment of certain weapons, means and methods of warfare. States … are required to review the legality of new weapons, means and methods of warfare before … •• •• the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; the 2008 Convention on …
… Since the only use of nuclear weapons in 1945, the world has wrestled with … a binding agreement. Working towards a ban on nuclear weapons For decades the discourse …
… and prohibits or restricts the use of certain weapons. The ICRC plays a leading role in the … of weapons. Video Let's decide the future of nuclear weapons before they decide ours. Is the world ready to face a nuclear war? No. So let’s ban the bomb. …
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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.
