… norms. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is another example of multilateralism … all the way to its goal: a world without nuclear weapons. I raise these examples to …
… Mine Ban Convention, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons). Under the respective …
… report on Working towards the elimination of nuclear weapons: Four-year action plan (CD/15/13) Report on Weapons and international humanitarian law …
… 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 …
… Cold War arms race and the development of new weapons technologies brought new realities to … Another ongoing discussion is the issue of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons were the subject of difficult …
… challenges, among others, the rising nuclear threat, resurgence of terrorist …
… with the West and clandestinely obtained nuclear weapons in 1978. It did so on the basis that … Manustan possesses approximately 250 nuclear warheads. For its part, Setistan sided …
… health hazards, as well as the ever-present nuclear threat, require international dialogue … such as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which is another example of …
… war. These restrictions apply to the type of weapons used, the way they are used and the … and a series of agreements on specific weapons. The ICRC has been involved in the … dangerous forces (namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations). Means …
… The 2024 Challenges Report focuses on: nuclear weapons – grey zones and hybrid warfare – …
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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.
