Views of Beit Hanoun, one of the neighborhoods most affected by the bombings in Northern Gaza, 2014 (Photo: © Yann Libessart/MSF)

Building towards an international policy response on explosive weapons

December 20, 2018 Comments are off

2018 has seen a continuation of severe humanitarian harm from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. Yet it has also seen distinct positive movement towards a multilateral policy response to frame this issue as an urgent humanitarian concern, and start to drive practical national policies, and international expectations of behaviour, that strengthen the protection of civilians in armed conflict. It was towards the end of 2015 that the President of the ICRC and... Read more

Explosive Weapons

Cause of devastating harm to civilians

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Nuclear Weapons

It’s time we changed the rules

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Autonomous weapons

Killing by machine

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New technologies

Science, technology and weaponisation

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Remember victims and respond to survivors: states must join the nuclear ban treaty

August 6, 2018 Comments are off

Seventy-three years ago this week, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 210,000 people in the immediate aftermath of the bombings. Many more died in the weeks, months and years following 1945, through the horrific short- and long-term, intergenerational effects on people of the blast, heat and radiation produced by the use of nuclear weapons. Since then, the testing of nuclear weapons has also had... Read more

Explosive Weapons

Cause of devastating harm to civilians

84 items

Nuclear Weapons

It’s time we changed the rules

88 items

Autonomous weapons

Killing by machine

76 items

New technologies

Science, technology and weaponisation

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Preventing civilian suffering and developing norms on weapons: statement to the CCW

November 21, 2018 Comments are off

This week, states are meeting in Geneva at the UN to discuss their work under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and emerging issues for this framework, which exists to ban or restrict the use of weapons technologies (other than biological, chemical and nuclear) that have particularly unacceptable effects. With international norms and rules increasingly under threat, and widespread civilian suffering in conflict, Article 36 drew attention to the developments that states parties should focus... Read more

Explosive Weapons

Cause of devastating harm to civilians

84 items

Nuclear Weapons

It’s time we changed the rules

88 items

Autonomous weapons

Killing by machine

76 items

New technologies

Science, technology and weaponisation

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Science, technology and weaponisation: addressing developments effectively

November 23, 2018 Comments are off

This week, states are meeting in Geneva at the UN to discuss their work under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and emerging issues for this framework, which exists to ban or restrict the use of weapons technologies (other than biological, chemical and nuclear) that have particularly unacceptable effects. Under the discussion on emerging issues for the convention, Article 36 gave the following statement on how states should keep appraised of new developments in science... Read more

Explosive Weapons

Cause of devastating harm to civilians

84 items

Nuclear Weapons

It’s time we changed the rules

88 items

Autonomous weapons

Killing by machine

76 items

New technologies

Science, technology and weaponisation

31 items

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Science, technology and weaponisation: addressing developments effectively

November 23, 2018 (Off)

Preventing civilian suffering and developing norms on weapons: statement to the CCW

November 21, 2018 (Off)

Disarmament as a means to build peace

June 19, 2018 (Off)

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Media Advisory: ICAN to collect Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday for treaty banning nuclea...

December 8, 2017 (Off)

Nobel Peace Prize boosts efforts to prevent horror threatened by nuclear weapons

October 10, 2017 (Off)

Press Release: Majority of states agree to ban nuclear weapons at United Nations

July 7, 2017 (Off)

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Data Collection and the Safe Schools Declaration: Building Upon Current Practice

December 18, 2018 (Off)

New paper: Humanitarian mine action and protecting education – making links thr...

November 26, 2018 (Off)

Human security requires environmental security: joint statement on conflict and envir...

November 6, 2018 (Off)

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