Sentences with phrase «human rights watch»

The Italian campaign has translated a number of campaign materials, including the recent Q&A issued by Human Rights Watch.

The initial campaign coordinator is Mary Wareham, Advocacy Director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch.

In late June 2014, Kane discussed the campaign's concerns over the lack of gender diversity in diplomatic meetings, experts groups, publications, and media coverage relating to autonomous weapons in a meeting with Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams of the Nobel Women's Initiative and campaign coordinator Mary Wareham from Human Rights Watch.

In high - level international deliberations, the move from «informal» to «formal» represents a real step forward, said Stephen Goose, arms director of Human Rights Watch and a co-founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

At her meeting with Williams, Bonino said she has a copy of the 2012 Losing Humanity report by Human Rights Watch in her office.

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY: Ms. Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch, @marywareham @hrw Ms. Wareham is advocacy director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch and global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

Another speaker on the panel was Ken Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, which is a co-founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

On Tuesday, 28 May 2013, Steve Goose from Human Rights Watch and Peter Asaro from the International Committee on Robot Arms Control explained the campaign's objectives and its views on the UN report during a press conference and side event.

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1993, Mr. Goose worked as a staff member of the House Appropriations Committee and as a researcher for the Center for Defense Information.

Article 36 issued a memo on UK policy, while Human Rights Watch released its review of a new US policy directive the week before the launch.

The coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch, introduced the new global coalition, which is comprised of 43 NGOs in 20 countries.

Campaign members Pax Christi Vlaanderen, PAX, and Human Rights Watch have written to Belgian parliamentarians urging their support for this non-binding motion, which is expected to be discussed in the coming weeks and possibly adopted by mid-2017.

The campaign's principal spokespersons Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams, roboticist Professor Noel Sharkey, and Human Rights Watch arms director Steve Goose addressed the conference, while campaigners were present from the non-governmental organizations Action on Armed Violence, Amnesty International, Article 36, Human Rights Watch, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and PAX (formerly IKV Pax Christi).

Both the Shaking the Foundation: The Human Rights Implications of Killer Robots report issued in May by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic and a June report by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Professor Christof Heyns, find that autonomous weapons systems pose far - reaching potential implications to human rights, specifically the rights to life and dignity.

On 10 October, Campaign to Stop Killer Robots coordinator Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch delivered a statement at UNGA First Committee that highlighted our dismay that states have not met to discuss fully autonomous weapons since April 2016.

On 5 December 2017, Denmark's largest newspaper Politiken published an article by Campaign to Stop Killer Robots coordinator Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch, asking why Denmark is not actively working to address the serious concerns raised by fully autonomous weapons.

Ms. Bonnie Docherty of Human Rights Watch, a campaign co-founder, will speak on the human rights implications of autonomous weapons systems, including the basic tenants of the right to life, principle of humanity, and dictates of the public conscience or Marten's Clause.

Mary Wareham from Human Rights Watch, global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, also spoke at the Ottawa events.

Human Rights Watch called on governments to pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict.

Steve Goose, arms division director of Human Rights Watch, said the Fifth Review Conference and CCW process on lethal autonomous weapons systems provide an opportunity for states to make a real difference to address an entire class of weapons.

According to Human Rights Watch, the policy in effect constitutes the world's first moratorium on lethal fully autonomous weapons.

The first, a November 19 report from Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School Human Rights Clinic, calls for an international ban on killer robots.

In January, Steve Goose and Ken Roth from Human Rights Watch talked with AI experts at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Austin, Texas and at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland respectively, while ICRAC's Heather Roff presented on autonomous weapons at a conference in Puerto Rico for prominent scientists and AI researchers from industry and academia.

It is comprised of five international NGOs — Human Rights Watch, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, Nobel Women's Initiative, Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom — and four national NGOs that work internationally: Article 36 (UK), Association for Aid and Relief Japan, Mines Action Canada, and IKV Pax Christi (The Netherlands).

Human Rights Watch warned that fully autonomous weapons would inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and -LSB-...]

This is something less than the absolute ban on killer robots proposed by Human Rights Watch, but it will set limits on what can be deployed.

On 29 June 2017, Nakamitsu met with Campaign to Stop Killer Robots representatives Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch in New York, where they discussed the revolutionary nature of fully autonomous weapons and paradigm shift they constitute for the conduct of warfare in future.

Guest speaker artificial intelligence expert Professor Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley addressed the briefing as did Steve Goose and Mary Wareham from campaign co-founder Human Rights Watch.

The campaign's initial coordinator is Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch.

In November 2012, Human Rights Watch published Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots, which called for a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

Image: Cover artwork for the Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic report «Mind the Gap: The Lack of Accountability for Killer Robots» © 2015 Russell Christian for Human Rights Watch

Today (October 28), Campaign to Stop Killer Robots coordinator Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch delivered a statement to the United National General Assembly (UNGA) First Committee on Disarmament and International Security in New York, which concludes its annual deliberations next week.

Authored by Bonnie Docherty, who has written all subsequent reports by Human Rights Watch on this topic.

The December 2013 attack on ESAT journalists and Citizen Lab's research regarding that attack were reported on in the media, including on the front page of the Washington Post.10 Additionally, the Washington Post, 11 Human Rights Watch, 12 and the Citizen Lab13 have all contacted Hacking Team about the case.

Shaking the Foundations: The Human Rights Implications of Killer Robots by Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic, May 2014.

On November 19, 2012, Human Rights Watch issued its report: «Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots.»

Human Rights Watch warned that fully autonomous weapons would inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and non-legal checks on the killing of civilians.

A 2013 Human Rights Watch report detailed ongoing torture at Ethiopia's Maekelawi detention center, the first stop for arrested journalists and protests organizers.

61 Human Rights Watch, «The Know Everything We Do — Appendix 2: Correspondance,» March 25, 2014, https://www.hrw.org/node/123976/section/12.

Several NGOs in the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots have a long history of experience working within the CCW, including global coordinator Human Rights Watch.

Mind the Gap: The Lack of Accountability for Killer Robots by Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic, April 2015.

In its review of the new policy, Human Rights Watch described it as an acknowledgment by the US that it shares the growing concern that fully autonomous weapons could endanger civilians in many ways.

One individual who was working with Egyptian - owned Nilesat on an unrelated technical issue told Human Rights Watch that individuals from INSA came and visited him in late 2010 to find the upload frequencies for Nilesat because they wanted to «jam one foreign station.»

Then 32 countries and the European Union provided statements in a general debate as well as the UNIDIR, UNICRI, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and six co-founders of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots: Article 36, Human Rights Watch, International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), Mines Action Canada, PAX, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic issued the 26 - page report Shaking the Foundations: The Human Rights Implications of Killer Robots in May, their first report since 2012 ′ s Losing Humanity.

12 Human Rights Watch, «The Know Everything We Do — Appendix 2: Correspondance,» March 25, 2014, http://www.hrw.org/node/123976/section/12.

In October 2012, representatives of seven NGOs — ICRAC, Article 36, Human Rights Watch, IKV Pax Christi, Mines Action Canada, Nobel Women's Initiative, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs — came together in New York to discuss the possibility of a coordinated effort to tackle the issue of autonomous lethal robots.

The campaign, which is coordinated by Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch, has seen its membership double since the launch; it is now comprised of 48 nongovernmental organizations in 23 countries.

21 «Ethiopia,» Human Rights Watch, accessed February 13, 2014, http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/ethiopia.

Human Rights Watch declined an invitation to the hearing and issued a statement that the hearing was a «media event aimed to showcase those who agree with the government's views and criticize those who do not.»