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… the 2024 Challenges Report The prohibition of nuclear weapons: Protecting humanity from unspeakable suffering Nuclear weapons and IHL; The Treaty on the …
… of the tragedies brought about by the use of nuclear weapons in the past. The leaders exhorted the … respective governments the need to pursue nuclear disarmament efforts and a nuclear-free …
… catastrophic health impact from the use of nuclear weapons on these two cities," said ICRC … there be for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, especially as most of the …
… humanitarian law treaties by States. 1 - Weapons Anti-personnel mines 1997 Convention … of ratification / accession Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons , model instruments of …
… through the growing risk of the use of nuclear weapons; the terrible impact of war in cities, … humanitarian law (IHL) . Mr Chair, Nuclear weapons profoundly challenge the basic …
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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.
