Signatory Professor Toby Walsh of the University of New South Wales generated further media interest, particularly in Australia, when he joined Campaign to Stop Killer Robots outreach at UNGA First Committee on Disarmament in New York in October 2015. (stopkillerrobots.org)
More states have raised autonomous weapons concerns at the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security this year than in the past two years, according to a Campaign to Stop Killer Robots review of statements from the 2015 session, which concludes on 9 November. (stopkillerrobots.org)
States including Austria, France, Ireland, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Pakistan, and Switzerland have spoken more than once on autonomous weapons at the 2015 session of First Committee. (stopkillerrobots.org)