… among them are due to cancer. Yet the two nuclear bombs which caused such untold human … to most of the bombs in the arsenals of nuclear-armed States today. What more … ensure the complete elimination of nuclear weapons? Before it is too late. The horror …
… to review progress on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament has ended in failure. The …
… 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 …
… agreement that will prohibit the use of nuclear weapons. This video describes why African …
… entirely inadequate. It would be the same if nuclear weapons were to be used today. There is no … stand in silent remembrance of the horror of nuclear weapons. But this year we remember the …
… on the Prohibition and Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Nagasaki, Japan. Speech by Christine … point in the efforts to end the era of nuclear weapons. Negotiations by States …
… Nuclear Weapon Risks Symposium, United Nations … carried out to further the understanding of nuclear weapon risks. UNIDIR’s work builds on … of the increasing danger that nuclear weapons will be used – intentionally, …
… devastation. Eight decades later, over 12,000 nuclear weapons still exist. Eighty years ago, … in history to suffer the devastation of nuclear weapons. Tens of thousands of people …
… War I so horrified the world that chemical weapons were banned only seven years after the … and inhumane weapon was unleashed. Nuclear blasts decimated two Japanese cities … that, like poison gas after World War I, nuclear weapons too must be banned outright. …
… That’s the day the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons enters into force, the day that nuclear weapons become prohibited. On this …
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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.
