The Geneva Protocols?

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The Geneva Protocols outlawed "weapons of mass destruction!." Give three reasons why this policy was correct!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Geneva Protocol

The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the first use of chemical and biological weapons!. It was signed at Geneva on June 17, 1925 and was entered into force on February 8, 1928!.

It prohibits the use of chemical weapons and biological weapons, but has nothing to say about production, storage or transfer!. Later treaties did cover these aspects -- the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention!.

A number of countries submitted reservations when becoming parties to the Geneva Protocol declaring that they only regarded the non-use obligations as applying to other parties and that these obligations would cease to apply if the prohibited weapons were used against them!.

1!. safeguard the human rights of individuals involved in armed conflict

2!. to formalize the laws of war and war crimes in the nascent (coming or having recently come into existence)
body of secular international law!.

3!. Led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a non-binding declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, partly in response to the atrocities of World War II!.

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