The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW or CCWC), concluded at Geneva on October 10, 1980 and entered into force in December 1983, seeks to prohibit or restrict the use of certain conventional weapons which are considered excessively injurious or whose effects are indiscriminate.
The full title is Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects and it is an annex to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.
Read more about Convention On Certain Conventional Weapons: Convention Adoption and Entry Into Force, Objectives, Protocol I: Non-Detectable Fragments, Protocol II: Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices, Protocol III: Incendiary Weapons, Protocol IV: Blinding Laser Weapons, Protocol V: Explosive Remnants of War
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