… be limited as required by IHL (for example, nuclear weapons). The prohibition of indiscriminate attacks governs the use of all weapons, including those that are not …
… and enduring humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use. Nihon Hidankyo has long advocated … the complete prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons, an objective that aligns with …
… advance the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons; and address the potential risks posed … in warfare; and the existential danger that nuclear weapons pose to humanity as a whole: …
… humanitarian impact of weaponry, including nuclear arms, landmines, arms transfers, and …
… ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The ICRC will continue to work … Arising from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas. These instruments …
… respond in cases of chemical, biological or nuclear accidents. The trip concluded with a …
… of the Red Cross New York, 3–7 March 2025 Nuclear disarmament as a long-standing … of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and four years after the entry …
… Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), alongside representatives of … centre of all debates and decision-making on nuclear disarmament. Let me highlight why the …
… Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, New York, 5 March 2025. Your … Since 1945, the destructive power of nuclear weapons has increased many thousands …
… adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The report also discusses the …
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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.
