الحظر و القيود على الأسلحة الحديثة في إطار القانون الدولي الإنساني

Abstract EN

It came the provisions of international humanitarian law, from the beginning, to put an end to the suffering caused by armed conflicts.

To that end, international humanitarian law defines both the behavior of combatants and the rules of choice of means and methods of warfare, including weapons.

The use of chemical or biological weapons has been taboo for centuries.

The use of toxic gases in World War I led to the conclusion of the first international agreement The 1925 Geneva Protocol banning the use of asphyxiating, poisonous or similar gases and bacteriological methods of warfare.

The 1925 Protocol was a milestone in international humanitarian law, followed by other legal instruments in the form of conventions adopted by States in 1972 and 1993.

And it formed the 1972 Convention, commonly referred to as the Biological Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, a major step in the work to remove these heinous weapons altogether.

Since the use of these weapons is prohibited under the 1925 Protocol, the Convention prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, acquisition and transfer of chemical weapons, including their delivery systems, and demands their destruction.

The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention expands the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons in 1925 Protocol, to include the prohibition of the development, and production, storage, possession and transfer of chemical weapons, including launch systems, and also included the destruction of those weapons, while there is no comprehensive ban or global use of nuclear weapons under international law, despite its strength enormous Altdmiobh However, the International Court of Justice concluded in July 1996 that use would generally be contrary to the principles of international humanitarian law and rules of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) believes that it is difficult to imagine how any use of nuclear weapons be consistent with the rules of international humanitarian law.

Given the unique characteristics of nuclear weapons, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all States to ensure that never return to the use of nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are considered legal or illegal use.