International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 2023
… Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, 26 September 2023 Excellencies, … Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – an important day for …
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Chair’s Summary Report of State Expert Meeting on IHL: Protecting the Natural Environment in Armed Conflict
… and minimizing environmental impacts of heavy weapons. Delegations also underlined the value … 1977, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968), the Convention on the … (2003), and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2017). 6 Delegations spoke …
Remembering Hiroshima: Should it ever be the future of humanity?
… bombings, has been advocating a total ban on nuclear weapons . He has also attended the First … Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in June 2022 and the G7 …
Food security in times of armed conflict: What you need to know
… IHL prohibits or restricts use of a range of weapons that can have widespread and … mines , cluster munitions , and nuclear weapons . As well, employing weapons … rules prohibits attacks on dams, dykes, and nuclear power plants if such attacks may cause …
NPT States Parties must make urgent progress on implementing their obligations and commitments
… to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – 31 July 2023 Excellencies, Ladies … (NPT), one where concrete progress towards nuclear disarmament is needed more than ever. …
Frequently asked questions: Rules of war
… of warfare (for instance, the use of certain weapons). IHL is also known as 'the law of … the civilian population if dams, dykes and nuclear plants and other installations located … mines (1997), cluster munitions (2008), nuclear weapons (2017), as well as limitations …
Implementing international humanitarian law: 2020/2021 report
… of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by Belize, Honduras and … Dominican Republic on the ratification of the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty. The … American states. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons of 7 July 2017 (TPNW 2017): …
Bringing IHL Home through Domestic Law and Policy: Report
… ENSURING THE APPLICATION OF IHL TO WEAPONS, NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ARMS … that have otherwise been prohibited, such as nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, cluster … party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Selected practice CROATIA At …
Annual Report 2022
… such as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban … For example, at an AU event on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, it reminded …
Avoiding catastrophe: we must act now to ensure nuclear weapons are never again used
… to the calamitous consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. As G7 leaders gather in Hiroshima for … international community. The risk of use of nuclear weapons is highest since the worst …
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