Sentences with phrase «new international law»

On the positive side, demands for a ban on these weapons continued to multiply as did calls for new international law to achieve this objective.

This should be achieved through new international law (a treaty), as well as through national laws and other measures.

More importantly perhaps this process has shown it is possible to create new international law even when some states are strongly opposed to the idea.

Besides blog and conference papers, you'll find new international law scholarship that might identify gaps or issues to be researched in working papers and new journal literature.

Campaigners believe that the CCW's agreement to consider the matter could lead to the creation of new international law prohibiting fully autonomous weapons.

A previous report by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions issued in May 2013 called on all states to adopt a national moratorium on fully autonomous weapons until new international law can be secured.

Another significant development in 2017 was the call by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) group of more than 100 states to swiftly begin negotiating new international law stipulating prohibitions and regulations on lethal autonomous weapons systems.

Members of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots this week called on the government of Canada to support the creation of new international law to pre-emptive ban fully autonomous weapons or «killer robots» as part of a new outreach effort by Mines Action Canada, a co-founder of the global Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

At last week's meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts, most states expressed their desire to move swiftly to develop new international law on fully autonomous weapons.

This is what Paul Singer's vulture fund has done with Argentina, writing new international law that will apply to Ukraine.

This Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) is the next step towards new international law about autonomous weapons.

It calls for a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons through new international law as well as through domestic legislation.

Asaro said the campaign views the Convention on Conventional Weapons experts meeting as the beginning of a process that should lead to new international law in the form of a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons.

Prof. Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions issued a 2013 report for the Human Rights Council that called on all states to adopt a national moratorium on autonomous weapons systems until new international law is achieved.

A handful of states, notably Russia and the United States, said it is too soon to begin negotiating new international law or politically - binding measures.

China for the first time called for new international law on killer robots, providing the precedent of the CCW protocol banning blinding lasers.

He highlighted the need for a clear norm to ban the weapons through new international law and cautioned against adopting a wait - and - see approach that allows unsafe systems to be developed and fielded.

Campaigners believe that the agreement to work on the matter could lead to a new international law prohibiting fully autonomous weapons.

Last December, China became the first permanent member of the UN Security Council to find that new international law is required to regulate fully autonomous weapons.

Campaigners believe that the CCW's agreement to consider the matter could lead to a new international law prohibiting fully autonomous weapons at the CCW or outside it.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots acknowledges that this is only the beginning for multilateral consideration of this topic, but new international law is needed.

Nations should implement the recommendations on autonomous weapons contained in the 2013 and 2014 reports to the Human Rights Council by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, including his call for a moratorium on fully autonomous weapons until new international law is achieved.

China is the first permanent member of the UN Security Council to find that new international law is required on fully autonomous weapons.