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ICRC presents record budget for 2015 to meet vastly expanding needs

… Arms Trade Treaty, 2 April 2013 Biological Weapons Convention Convention on the … of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, 10 April … in implementing activities. radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons or agents The ICRC …

News release

Regional delegation in India: Lest we forget!

… 2014 ƒƒ The humanitarian consequences of nuclear, radioactive, biological and chemical weapons Submissions deadline: 1 January 2015 …

Article

Autonomous weapon systems technical, military, legal and humanitarian aspects

… ‘autonomous weapon systems’ were defined as weapons that can independently select and … on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, the International Court of … I. 105 ICJ, Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports …

Law and policy topic

The Geneva Conventions 150 years later … still relevant?

… as the humanitarian consequences of certain weapons. For example, on the impact of drone … The humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons, the call for nuclear disarmament and the relevance of these …

Law and policy topic
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Weapons: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 2014

… controls on the availability of conventional weapons. In addition to prolonging armed … of conventional weapons, the threat of nuclear weapons remains a serious concern in … Movement appealed to States to ensure that nuclear weapons were never used again and to …

Statement

Malaysia: IHL conference commemorates 150 years of the first Geneva Convention

… medical units and the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. Participants at the first of two …

Article

The use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas and the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks

… the effects of the use of explosive weapons in populated areas in light of the … reflect the International Court of Justice Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, which held … areas 16 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. …

Law and policy topic

ICRC position on the use of toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement

… believes that the use of toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement purposes should be … agents are defined in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention as “[a]ny chemical not … and use of other toxic chemicals as weapons – such as the highly potent …

Law and policy topic

How does law protect in war?

… of the 1977 Geneva Protocols and the 1981 Weapons Convention, London, British Institute … CUP, 2001, 300 pp. GILL Terry, “The Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion of the … Law, the International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons, Cambridge, CUP, 1999, pp. …

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