Knowra Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons A United Nations treaty framework that regulates or prohibits specific weapons considered excessively injurious or indiscriminate. Its protocols address particular weapons and can bind states that join them.
Protocol I to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons : A CCW protocol prohibiting weapons whose primary effect is injury by fragments undetectable by X-rays. It applies the framework’s restrictions to a narrowly defined class of fragments.
Additional protocol : A supplementary treaty instrument that adds rules or obligations to an existing treaty framework. CCW rules are divided among protocols that states may accept separately.
United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons : The 1979–1980 diplomatic conference that negotiated the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its original protocols. This conference produced the treaty framework and its initial weapon restrictions.
Convention on Cluster Munitions : A 2008 treaty prohibiting the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster munitions for its parties. It bans a weapon category that the CCW has addressed through negotiations without a comparable binding protocol.
Blinding laser weapon : A laser weapon specifically designed to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision. Protocol IV made these weapons the subject of a preventive prohibition.
Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons : A CCW protocol restricting mines, booby-traps, and other devices, later strengthened by an amended version. It shows how the treaty regulates weapons through use restrictions and technical requirements.
Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons : The 1996 revision of CCW Protocol II, expanding restrictions on mines, booby-traps, and other devices. Its amendment demonstrates how states can update a protocol without replacing the convention.
1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions : A 1977 treaty protocol that codifies rules for international armed conflicts, including limits on weapons causing superfluous injury. Its general weapons principles helped shape the case for specific conventional-weapons rules.
Mine Ban Treaty : The 1997 treaty prohibiting antipersonnel mines and requiring their destruction and clearance by its parties. It goes beyond the CCW’s mine restrictions by prohibiting antipersonnel mines outright.
Explosive remnants of war : Unexploded ordnance and abandoned explosive ordnance that remain dangerous after armed conflict ends. Protocol V creates duties to reduce the civilian risks they leave behind.
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