مخلفات الحرب القابلة للانفجار في القانون الدولي الإنساني

Abstract EN

After the end of the armed conflict, explosive remnants of war, such as unexploded ordnance or Abandoned explosive ordnance, often become scattered on the battlefields, with many and varied long-term consequences, the most important of which are the death of part A large number of them or serious damage to their bodies or themselves, of innocent civilians not involved in the armed conflict.

They also remain a real and continuing threat to the natural environment and to humanitarian action and its components of individuals and notables.

This prompted the High Contracting Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain Conventional Weapons to take important steps on November 28, 2003 to reduce the human suffering caused by these explosives in recent conflicts by adopting a fifth protocol attached to them on explosive remnants of War, which is destined to provide effective treatment or contribution to reducing or the extent of its harmful effects and the problems that it poses, despite anticipating the challenges and obstacles facing its implementation and addressing them.