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... , radiological, biological and chemical weapons: time for a reality check? ... 4 5 We reach this conclusion because claims of use of chemical and biological weapons are made in many conventional conflicts.

• 2009-06-30
• Article
• by: Robin Coupland and Dominique Loye

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Nuclear weapons

... century in armed conflicts in which nuclear, chemical and biological weapons were used or allegedly used. ... Warfare, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention and ...

• 2007-06-30
• Article
• by: Dominique Loye, Robin Coupland

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Nuclear weapons

The international community banned the use of chemical and biological weapons after World War 1 and reinforced the ban in 1972 and ... use of chemical and biological weapons may be ignored or eroded.

• 2010-10-29
• Overview

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

Although there is no proof that biological weapons have been used in war in recent years, it is evident that they were used by ... out on biological weapons in the 1950s and 1960s is still valid ...

• 1997-06-30
• Article
• by: Graham S. Pearson

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

The immediate precursor of the Biological Weapons Convention, the 1925 Geneva Protocol, not only reaffirmed the ban on the use of ... Confirmed reports of State biological weapon programs are further ...

• 2001-11-20
• Statement
• Archived page

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

... the Geneva Protocol did not prohibit the development, production and stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons. ... As a separate issue, the prohibition of chemical and biological weapons ...

• 1997-06-30
• Article
• by: Jozef Goldblat

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

Before addressing the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) itself, we should point out that any view of the treaty from a ... Moreover, verification of the destruction of the biological stockpile ...

• 1997-06-30
• Article
• by: Achilles Zaluar, Roque Monteleone-Neto

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Treaties and customary law

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

The immediate precursor of the Biological Weapons Convention, the 1925 Geneva Protocol, was negotiated in the context of public ... unimaginable when the Biological Weapons Convention was negotiated.

• 1996-11-25
• Statement
• Archived page

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

The immediate precursor of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the 1925 Geneva Protocol, was negotiated in the context of ... unimaginable when the Biological Weapons Convention was negotiated.

• 1997-06-30
• Article

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

The statement was made to the Fifth Review Conference of States Parties to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, ... regime for the Biological Weapons Convention have not yet borne fruit and urged ...

• 2001-11-30
• News Release
• Archived page

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

... which formed the precursor for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. ... to the use of biological weapons in armed conflict – a task for which neither we, ...

• 2004-01-30
• Statement
• Archived page

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

... the ICRC is concerned that the plan falls short of meeting current and potential new threats from biological weapons. ... and the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, to encourage States which are ...

• 2002-11-15
• Statement
• Archived page

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

The international community banned the use of chemical and biological weapons after World War 1 and reinforced the ban in 1972 and ... use of chemical and biological weapons may be ignored or eroded.

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

It was most recently codified in the 1925 Geneva Protocol and subsequently in the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and in the ... and biological weapons to complement the ban on use in the ...

• 2003-03-04
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Nuclear weapons

The advances in biosciences which we are seeing now could make the use of chemical or biological weapons more effective, ... to the Biological Weapons Convention to identify a range of measures ...

• 2005-06-10
• Statement

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

Geneva (ICRC) – States party to the Biological Weapons Convention will meet in Geneva, from 20 November to 8 December 2006, ... States party to the Biological Weapons Convention will meet in Geneva, ...

• 2006-11-20
• News Release
• Archived page

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

... proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, their delivery systems, and related materials, Permanent Council of the ... With the adoption of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and ...

• 2006-12-11
• Statement

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • IHL in domestic law

At the Sixth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (Geneva, 20.11 - 8.12.2006), the ICRC has called for renewed ... of the Biological Weapons Convention (Geneva, 20.11 - 8.12. ...

• 2006-11-21
• Statement

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

An Act to implement obligations under the 1972 Biological and ... biological agents and toxins and of biological weapons, and to implement in [COUNTRY NAME] the Convention on the Prohibition of the ...

• 2005-09-30
• Article
• by: Christopher B. Harland, Angela Woodward

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • IHL in domestic law
      • Model laws

... Article I. These acts include the development, production, transfer and stockpiling of biological weapons. ... In addition, to the extent that the use of biological weapons amounts to " violence to ...

• 2003-08-27
• Statement
• Archived page

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

... of weapons, means and methods of warfare by the rules ... a case study of the imminent militarization of biology’’, ibid., p. 553; Robin Coupland and Dominique Loye, ‘‘Legal and health issues: ...

• 2006-12-31
• Article
• by: Kathleen Lawand

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Conduct of hostilities
      • Methods and means of warfare

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Review of new weapons

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • IHL in domestic law

... of nuclear weapons and, for the last two decades, on biological and chemical weapons. ... in Hague Declaration IV,3 of 1899 and chemical and biological weapons in the Geneva Protocol of 1925.

• 1994-04-30
• Article

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Humanitarian diplomacy and communication
      • United Nations

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Conventional weapons

... use of indiscriminate weapons, and also prohibit the use of weapons that are liable to cause ... would have its own effect (as with the banning of the use of chemical and biological weapons in 1925).

• 1994-04-30
• Article

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Humanitarian diplomacy and communication
      • United Nations

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Conventional weapons

ICRC Geneva, January 2006 A Guide to the Legal Review of New Weapons, ... use of specific weapons such as biological and chemical weapons, incendiary weapons, blinding laser weapons and landmines, ...

• 2006-12-31
• Article

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Contemporary challenges for IHL
      • Respect for IHL

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Conduct of hostilities
      • Methods and means of warfare

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Review of new weapons

They could facilitate the use of biological weapons either in armed conflict or as a means to spread terror. ... They could facilitate the use of biological weapons either in armed conflict or as a means to ...

• 2002-12-31
• Article

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Review of new weapons