36) on the Right to Life set out in Article 6. On October 30, 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee, a body established by the ICCPR, adopted General Comment (no. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.’ Article 6(1) of the Covenant provides: ‘Every human being has the inherent right to life. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a major human rights treaty with 172 States Parties, including every nuclear-armed State, except China.
Environmental protection – it is prohibited to attack the environment as a form of reprisal, or to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the environment. Humanity – it is prohibited to inflict unnecessary suffering and superfluous injury on combatants. Discrimination – it is prohibited to carry out attacks that indiscriminately harm civilians and other non-combatants as well as civilian infrastructure. Distinction – it is prohibited to attack civilians and other non-combatants as well as civilian infrastructure. They are integrated into the military law provisions of most countries, and are accepted as binding international law, applicable in wartime even when a state is not party to relevant international treaties. IHL core principles are set out in widely ratified treaties, most notably the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Geneva Protocols of 1977 and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980 (Inhumane Weapons Convention). 
It is a major part of the international law of armed conflict. International humanitarian law (IHL) regulates the actions of States in conducting warfare it serves in particular to protect civilians and other non-combatants from the effects of warfare.
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