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… Since the first and only use of nuclear weapons in 1945, the international community … such weapons. For decades the discourse about nuclear weapons was focused on their military …
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… to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 27 April to 22 May 2015, Statement of … to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). We speak as the …
… on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons, Vienna, Austria There has been a fundamental change in the debate about nuclear weapons. After decades of focusing on …
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… Appeal on nuclear weapons delivered at the Council of Delegates … of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons are still in existence, many …
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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.
