Toward a Balance between Human Rights and Military Considerations With a Glance at the Convention on Conventional Weapons And the Protocols Attached Thereof

Conventional weapons are among the brutal and violent vehicles that are classified outside the category of mass destruction weapons including biological, chemical and nuclear weaponry. Indeed the definition is not convincible because conventional weaponry has no clear and specified limit. These types of weapons are mainly intended to hurt people with no considerable effect on the military strongholds. The main step toward restriction and prohibition of using conventional weaponry was taken by conclusion of the Convention on Inhumane Weaponry (1980) and its attached protocols. It should be noted that conventional weaponry has always been discussed as one of the major human rights issues.In fact the international community tried through adoption of the convention on conventional weaponry and its attached protocol to control the inhumane weapons that leave destructive and sometimes irreparable effects, in order to maintain a balance between the human considerations and human rights on the one hand and the military considerations and necessities of war on the other.