… to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – 31 July 2023 Excellencies, Ladies … (NPT), one where concrete progress towards nuclear disarmament is needed more than ever. …
… IHL prohibits or restricts use of a range of weapons that can have widespread and … mines , cluster munitions , and nuclear weapons . As well, employing weapons … rules prohibits attacks on dams, dykes, and nuclear power plants if such attacks may cause …
… bombings, has been advocating a total ban on nuclear weapons . He has also attended the First … Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in June 2022 and the G7 …
… and minimizing environmental impacts of heavy weapons. Delegations also underlined the value … 1977, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968), the Convention on the … (2003), and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2017). 6 Delegations spoke …
… Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, 26 September 2023 Excellencies, … Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – an important day for …
… Conference on The Human Impacts of Autonomous Weapons, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago … Conference: The Human Impacts of Autonomous Weapons. The International Committee of the … but a few examples such as when it comes to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, …
… rules that would prohibit some autonomous weapons and restrict the use of others, … those controlled by AI. What are autonomous weapons? They're not the half-human, … inform military decision-making on the use of nuclear weapons. Some argue that the use 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 …
… issues, including on the impact of weapons and current disarmament initiatives. … used to direct decision-making on the use of nuclear weapons, potentially exacerbating the risks of use of nuclear weapons with the catastrophic …
… Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in New York, 27 November 2023 Mr … our meaningful collective efforts to advance nuclear disarmament. We are here with a common …
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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.
