Friday, November 15, 2013

Rights group encourages UN to address autonomous weapons

[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Wednesday encouraged action [press release] on behalf of UN members at the upcoming 2013 Convention for Conventional Weapons (CCW) [UN website] on November 14-15, chaired by Ambassador Jean-Hughes Simon-Michel of France. The advocacy group supports France's initiative to add fully autonomous weapons to the CCW's work program for 2014. A UN-wide decision to adopt the initiative will be made on Friday. HRW wants an appropriate forum to discuss the impact that fully...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/11/rights-group-encourage-un-to-address-killer-robots.php

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