… 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, …
… 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 as … 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 day, …
… that would result from the use of a nuclear weapon. Pierre Dorbes, head of the ICRC … remove some of the perceived obstacles to nuclear disarmament. This would create an … commitments to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons use in the run-up to the 2020 …
… to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons I. Introduction 1. On 2 March 2020, the … humanitarian impacts and risks of the use of nuclear weapons. Based on existing and emerging …
… by signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. "With rising regional and … the consequent increasing risks of use of nuclear weapons, you're giving the world the …
… 2017 treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons Ratification kit : State participation … of the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons ADVISORY SERVICE ON …
… decisive action to prohibit and eliminate weapons that have unacceptable humanitarian … and Red Crescent Movement to advocate that nuclear weapons must never be used again and … Movement’s call to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. In 2017, 122 States …
… and land. It had come from the testing of a nuclear weapon. This scene was not a singular … event for the region. For over 12 years nuclear testing was carried out in the Marshall … Society. This is the reality of nuclear weapons, and nuclear testing. Today is 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.
