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Humanitarian Laws and Conventions Regarding Weapons

A prominent US international human-rights lawyer, Karen Parker, says there are four rules derived from humanitarian laws and conventions regarding weapons:

  • weapons may only be used against legal enemy military targets and must not have an adverse effect elsewhere (the territorial rule)
  • weapons can only be used for the duration of an armed conflict and must not be used or continue to act afterwards (the temporal rule)
  • weapons may not be unduly inhumane (the "humaneness" rule). The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 speak of "unnecessary suffering" and "superfluous injury" in this regard
  • weapons may not have an unduly negative effect on the natural environment (the "environmental" rule).

 

 

 

 

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