… on 30 November on the cost in human terms of nuclear weapons. Some 30 diplomats and government … Japan, the only country to have experienced a nuclear attack, Kazakhstan, which is still …
… weapon systems 2) The use of explosive weapons in populated areas 3) Responsible arms transfers 4) Nuclear weapons VIII. Private military and … areas 3) Responsible arms transfers 4) Nuclear weapons VIII. Private military and …
… in populated areas of improvised explosive weapons by non-State armed groups also leads … which have been comprehensively prohibited, nuclear weapons remain the one weapon of mass … humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, as explicitly recognized by …
… through its work on the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. 9. Insufficient … dangerous forces, namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations, shall … dangerous forces, namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations, and …
… IHL - National Implementation database. 1 - Weapons Anti-personnel mines Model of … the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions Nuclear Weapons Model Law for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Wepons Convention on certain …
… 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 …
… Cyber warfare, autonomous weapons and the use of explosive weapons in … and the committees at the conference include: Nuclear weapons Cyber warfare Autonomous … Unidos de América. (15 minutos) Armas nucleares. México. Mariana Salazar Albornoz, …
… Conflict: New Frontiers, New Actors and New Weapons 10 Working Groups: The Shared Work of … and Eradication 19 ii Working Group 6: Nuclear Weapons 20 Repression of IHL … iv NPT Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968) PMSC Private military …
… 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 …
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 …
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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.
