Mozambique: improving access to housing and health for displaced people
… of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by Mozambique • Donated computers, …
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Kenya, Djibouti and Tanzania: Facts and Figures 2021
… 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 …
Fifth Universal Meeting of National Committees and Similar Entities on International Humanitarian Law
… 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 …
Explosive weapons: Civilians in populated areas must be protected
… 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 …
ICRC position on the use of toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement
… 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 …
Incapacitating chemical agents: Law enforcement, human rights law and policy perspectives
… 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 …
"Mankind is faced with a problem of supreme gravity..."; ICRC appeal, 1945
… 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 …
Atomic weapons and non-directed missiles: ICRC statement, 1950
… 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 …
The weapons issue: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 1996
… to the regulation of both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. … on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons Finally, the ICRC would like … on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons [4]. This was the first time …
Weapons: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 2012
… are afoot in the international debate about nuclear weapons . For decades, the discussion about … humanitarian consequences" of any use of nuclear weapons. This recognition was first …
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