China: International seminar shares best practices in managing emergency responses
… with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) hazards and the management of …
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Kenya, Djibouti and Tanzania: Facts and Figures 2021
… analysis of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This technical support was extended … and accession to the Treaty on the Ban on Nuclear Weapons. • Technical assistance given …
What is the difference between IHL and human rights law?
… on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, the International Court of Justice …
Views and recommendations on improvised explosive devices falling within scope of Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
… to reflect the improvised nature of the weapons. However, due to the lack of an … broad use of this term to describe a range of weapons spanning from improvised rockets and … or chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear material for use in operations …
What is international humanitarian law?
… and restrictions on the use of certain weapons and methods of warfare (see next … of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction2 • the 1976 … dangerous forces (namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations). Such …
Changing world, unchanged protection? 70 years of the Geneva Conventions
… of chains of command and an unchecked flow of weapons. As the trend towards allied and … the ICRC has observed the suffering caused by weapons and certain tactics of warfare and has … of chemical weapons during WWI, and against nuclear weapons after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. …
Mexico: Challenges to international humanitarian law and humanitarian action
… mandate to work on the humanitarian impact of weapons, always following the rule that all … or massively regulate the trade of small weapons through the Arms Trade Treaty. We are … electricity networks, dams, and chemical or nuclear plants are technically possible. Such …
Call to governments: Work together to stop cyber attacks on health care
… of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) Mikhail …
Eighth periodic report on the implementation of international humanitarian law at the level of Arab States 2015 - 2018
… Production and Stockpiling of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, 1993. 17/22 … 2006. - T reaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017. (Pending entry into … 2013. - T reaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017. (Pending entry into …
Assisting communities in need of humanitarian assistance in Southern Africa
… on the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons; Provided technical expertise in …
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