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Third Convention on Conventional Weapons meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems UN Geneva 11 - 15 April 2016
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They should also express commitment to work in coordination with like - minded states, UN agencies, international organizations, civil society, and other stakeholders to conclude a legally binding instrument prohibiting the development, production, and use of lethal autonomous weapons systems by the end of 2019.
At the first Convention on Conventional Weapons meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems held at the UN in Geneva on 13 - 16 May 2014, a number of countries noted the relevance of international human rights law in their statements, including Croatia, Egypt, the Holy See, Mexico, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.
Both the UN's letter and statement call for «inclusive and comprehensive dialogue» on the concerns posed by lethal autonomous weapons systems.
The first meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems opens at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva on Monday, 13 November.
Many of the 117 states party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) are expected to attend the four - day meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» in addition to representatives from international and UN agencies, -LSB-...]
The campaign wrote to the new UN Secretary - General António Guterres, who began his term on 1 January 2017, urging him to take a strong and unequivocal stance against lethal autonomous weapons systems by endorsing the call for a ban.
The second multilateral meeting on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» by members of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) will be held at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva on 13 - 17 April 2015.
In February 2016, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association issued a report recommending that «autonomous weapons systems that require no meaningful human control should be prohibited.»
Most of the CCW's 124 high contracting parties participated in three meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems in 2014 - 2016, in addition to UN agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Professor Christof Heyns, is due to present his latest report (A - HRC -26-36) to the the Human Rights Council on 12 June recommending that the body «remain seized» with the issue of autonomous weapons systems and «make its voice heard as the international debate unfolds.»
United Kingdom (23 October) In the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) we thank France for leading a productive, informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems in May.
This briefing come less than a month after the first Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» was held the UN in Geneva on 13 - 16 May.
An open letter authored by five Canadian experts in artificial intelligence research urges the Prime Minister to urgently address the challenge of lethal autonomous weapons (often called «killer robots») and to take a leading position against Autonomous Weapon Systems on the international stage at the upcoming UN meetings in Geneva.
The third Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems will be held at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva on 11 - 15 April 2016.
It calls for Australia to announce its support for the call to ban lethal autonomous weapons systems at the upcoming UN Conference on CCW, and to commit to working with other states to conclude a new international agreement that achieves this objective.
Jun. 1: Campaign representatives joined diplomats for an informal meeting to discuss ethical concerns over lethal autonomous weapons systems convened at the UN by the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the UN in Geneva in conjunction with the Caritas in Veritate Foundation.
A total of 87 countries participated in the four - day informal meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» by the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the United Nations (UN) on Geneva, which concluded on the afternoon of Friday, May 16 (71 states parties and signatories to the convention and 12 observer states).
Under «frontier issues,» the UN Secretary General's High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, remarked that: «Rapid advances in the civilian and military application of artificial intelligence should continue to give impetus for formal deliberations on lethal autonomous weapon systems within the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.»
Canada supported a proposal for nations to begin addressing the matter and officials have confirmed that Canada will participate in the first CCW experts meeting on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» next month at the UN in Geneva.
The UN Secretary - General himself spoke about autonomous weapons systems at the board's meeting on 7 March and encouraged its members to continue looking at what can be done about the weapons.
Sep. 3: More than 20 countries attend a seminar convened by France at the UN in Geneva on fully autonomous weapons systems.
The first Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems will be held at the UN in Geneva on 13 - 16 May.
Ireland made its first public statement on the matter at the UN General Assembly in September 2013, stating that «our focus must always be to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and human rights,» principles that «must also apply to weapons which will be developed in the future, such as fully autonomous weapons systems.»
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.
A few days before, Danish academic Rune Saugmann published an article in foreign policy magazine Ræson describing Denmark's «glaring absence» from the recent UN meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems.
Heyns will address the third meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems at the Convention on Conventional Weapons, which opens at the UN in Geneva on 11 April.
Most of the 118 states that are part of the Convention on Conventional Weapons are expected to participate in the 2015 talks on lethal autonomous weapons systems to be held at the UN in Geneva on 13 - 17 April.
In February 2016, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association issued a report containing the recommendation that «autonomous weapons systems that require no meaningful human control should be prohibited.»
The UN Secretary - General himself spoke about autonomous weapons systems at the board's meeting on 7 March and encouraged its members to continue looking at what -LSB-...]
The first meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems will be held at the UN in Geneva on either 24 - 28 April or 21 - 25 August 2017 and chaired by Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill of India.
The United Nations (UN) report calling for a global moratorium on lethal autonomous robotics, weapons systems that can select and kill targets without a human being directly issuing a command, will be considered this week in Geneva.
States proposed the recommendation to formalize the CCW process during the third informal meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems held at the UN in Geneva on 11 - 15 April 2016.