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… The 'Explosive Weapons with Wide Area Effects: A Deadly … to prevent or mitigate the impact of these weapons and better protect the civilian … of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) contamination as a result of …
… with the use of these toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement. It brought … Study]. 21 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. … effort against WMD, along with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the …
… ICRC on 5 September 1945, in the light of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki … against war... The inevitable development of weapons, and so of warfare as a whole, has a … of the exploitation of the discoveries in nuclear physics, which permit the producing of …
… after extending it to cover all non-directed weapons. The Conference voted the following … 1925, noting that the use of non-directed weapons which cannot be aimed with precision … to prohibit absolutely all recourse to such weapons and to the use of atomic energy or any …
… to the regulation of both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. … on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons Finally, the ICRC would like … on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons [4]. This was the first time …
… are afoot in the international debate about nuclear weapons . For decades, the discussion about … humanitarian consequences" of any use of nuclear weapons. This recognition was first …
… the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons LOUIS MARESCA* On 28 November 2003, … to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)1 adopted a new protocol on … Page 825 2004 Vol. 86 No 856 825 cal or nuclear weapons. This is in line with the …
… for ending the suffering caused by these weapons. At its core are obligations intended … of economic and individual activities with weapons • Law of 9 March 1995 on … country of firearms, chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, ammunition or explosive …
… global race towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons dominated the focus of writers … touched on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and the need to progress on …
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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.
