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Illegal weapons: A global guide


Just today, dozens of Syrians were killed in a suspected chemical weapons attack in Idlib.
Be it also by barrel bomb, cluster munition, or landmine, civilians die all too frequently at the hands of weapons the international community has set out to ban. After years of declining use and progress in destroying stockpiles, deaths from such munitions are on the increase. But which weapons are allowed, which aren’t, and why? And can’t more be done to prevent indiscriminate killing?
Starting with the Geneva Conventions of 1949, international humanitarian law has long tried, with varying degrees of success, to lessen the impact of …read more

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