… conflict, its knowledge of the effects of weapons on civilians and combatants, and its … a more sombre anniversary: 75 years since nuclear weapons were first used, in Hiroshima … Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the ICRC called for nuclear weapons to be banned outright. This …
… Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Delivered by Mr. Peter Maurer, … Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. This day is a vital reminder …
Open to Palestinian journalists working in print media The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an independent humanitarian organization working to protect and assist victims of armed …
… to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons I. Introduction 1. On 2 March 2020, … humanitarian impacts and risks of the use of nuclear weapons. Based on existing and …
… 6 B. Other IHL treaties, on weapons and cultural property … 7 1. Weapons treaties … December 2009. 6 6 B. Other IHL treaties, on weapons and cultural property 1. Weapons … ICJ Rep 14; Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (8 July 1996) [1996] ICJ Rep …
… of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Only seven more ratifications …
… commitment to contribute to a global ban on nuclear weapons by ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on 6 August 2020. Nigeria …
… 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 …
… Movement urges all nations to end the nuclear era. Seventy-five years ago, on the … a terrifying new weapon on Hiroshima. The nuclear bomb wiped out the city, instantly … comes even as the risk of use of nuclear weapons has risen to levels not seen since the …
… in the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), its Protocols, the Group of … on, the application of IHL. These include the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the … of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – EU General Statement …
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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.
