… Military operations in space and outer space weapons As the role of space systems in … orbit-based and ground-based anti-satellite weapons or other counter-space military … prohibits placing in orbit objects carrying nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass …
Meet Dr Masao Tomonaga, Honorary Director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital. Dr Tomonaga has cared for leukaemia patients, including atomic bomb survivors, and focused on how …
… around cyber warfare, urban warfare, use of nuclear weapons, and also the possibility of creating …
… London/Ref. HIST 3088/25 The first poisonous weapons emerged in the fighting on the western … in 1915. During the following two years these weapons were extensively used by the warring … which strike indiscriminately – such as nuclear and biological weapons and landmines – …
… with the use of these toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement. It brought … Study]. 21 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. … effort against WMD, along with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the …
… violence, - The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons includes a commitment to assess …
… chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear contamination (CBRN). When we think about contamination caused by weapons in armed conflict, we also know there …
… means of warfare. There are restrictions on weapons, on their use and on conduct. The … legitimate targets only. Highlights Explosive weapons in populated areas ICRC report on IHL … dangerous forces (namely dams, dykes and nuclear power plants). Means and methods of …
… all that stems from the supply and use of weapons. Widespread and poorly controlled … highlight that: Arms transfers must ensure, weapons do not end up being used to commit … biological weapons – must never be used; and Nuclear weapons, because of their devastating …
… have secured humanitarian agreements on nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, landmines and the arms trade. These …
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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.
