… to take urgent action to scrap all nuclear weapons. The call comes ahead of a crucial … will review progress on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and eliminating them from …
… Munitions (CCM); Art. 8(19) of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC); Art. 13(3)(a) of the … II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)); Art. 10(2) of the Protocol on … for humanity, given the invention of nuclear weapons. Because it was already aware …
… abolish all use of, and completely eliminate, weapons of mass destruction; in law, and in … we still do not have an adequate legal ban: nuclear weapons. The International Red Cross … Movement has long been concerned about nuclear weapons. ICRC delegates witnessed the …
… towards ridding the world of all types of weapons of mass destruction. "Looking back at … conflict has been relatively limited – and nuclear arms. A review conference for the Treaty on Nuclear Non-Proliferation starting in New York …
… 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 …
… non-state actors, the availability of small weapons, the fragility and fragmentation of … bombs and cluster munition to chemical and nuclear weapons. A global social contract can … bombs and cluster munition to chemical and nuclear weapons. A global social contract can …
… The 70th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons is the moment to signal that the era of nuclear weapons is coming to an end and that …
… on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, the International Court of Justice …
… on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons, Vienna, Austria There has been a fundamental change in the debate about nuclear weapons. After decades of focusing on …
… on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively … place thus far on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. The ICRC and the … Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (Oslo, 4-5 March 2013),47 and …
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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.
