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Closing loopholes in the biological weapons convention

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2002
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) received two major blows in the past months. Negotiations for a protocol to strengthen the BTWC came to a halt and the Fifth Review Conference was unable to reach agreement on a final declaration. In addition, ongoing research projects, predominantly in the United States, are threatening to undermine ...
Jan, van Aken, Edward, Hammond
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The biological weapons convention after November 2002*

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2003
The Fifth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention, in November 2002, was the first to fail to produce a Final Document. It saw heated debate on non-compliance with the spirit of the prohibitions that it enshrines and marked the collapse of almost ten years of negotiations attempting to create a Protocol to strengthen the Convention. What
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The Biological Weapons Convention: An overview

International Review of the Red Cross, 1997
Since ancient times, the use in war of poison and pathogenic agents has been considered a treacherous practice. It was condemned by international declarations and treaties, notably by the 1907 Hague Convention (IV) respecting the laws and customs of war on land.
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Biological Weapons Convention

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction was opened for signature by the world’s nations on April 10, 1972. The goal of the Biological Weapons Convention, as it is commonly known, was, and remains, to rid the world of biological weapons ...
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Modernizing Confidence-Building Measures for the Biological Weapons Convention

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, 2011
The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention in December 2011 provides an opportunity to modernize the treaty to better address the challenges of the 21st century. The key to this modernization is to redesign the treaty's Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs), the only formal mechanism for increasing transparency and demonstrating ...
Gregory D, Koblentz, Marie Isabelle, Chevrier   +1 more
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ENSURING THE FUTURE OF THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

The Nonproliferation Review, 2011
This introductory article first provides an overview of key historical developments pertaining to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), exposing the roots of the assertion that the treaty is unverifiable. The article also reviews the factors that have changed since the BWC's negotiation, including those that loom over the BWC's effective ...
Jean Pascal Zanders, Amy E. Smithson
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National Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention

Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 2006
Despite thirty years since entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) the majority of States Parties still have not implemented effective national measures to ensure compliance with Convention obligations. The combined lack of a multilateral organisation with responsibility to monitor Convention compliance and the growing threat of bio-
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The Biological Weapons Convention.

Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics), 2018
The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was the first international treaty to effectively prohibit an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. In its Preamble, the BWC clearly affirms the norm against the use of biology as a weapon by stating that such use would be 'repugnant to the conscience of mankind'.
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Biological Weapons Convention: Problems and Prospects

2010
The anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 raised the question of responding to future attacks. Terrorists must be prevented from developing, producing, stockpiling, or otherwise acquiring or retaining, and using under any circumstances, biological agents and toxins, equipment, or means of delivery of agents or toxins, for nonpeaceful purposes.
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Verification of the biological weapons convention: What is needed?

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2002
The lack of transparency and verification of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is one factor behind the current weakening of the ban on biological weapons. Despite recent setbacks, governments need to fill the verification gap so that violations of the BWC can be detected and deterred.
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