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Thank you, Chair, and thank you to Costa Rica for their kind invitation to address the Permanent Council. I speak on behalf of the Stop Killer Robots campaign, an international coalition of over 200 member organisations from more than 70…

The final meeting of this year’s discussions at the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) meeting on autonomous weapons systems (AWS), from 15-19th May 2023, ended without substantive progress. Once again, the outcome report…

Stop Killer Robots is looking for a creative and dynamic person to join our team to support social media, communications and digital campaigning work to counter digital dehumanisation, reduce the automation of harm, and regulate autonomous weapons.

The first meeting of 2023 of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) on autonomous weapons systems (AWS) took place from 6-10th March. Following the Belén Communique…

On 24 February 2023, 33 states from Latin American and the Caribbean issued an historic Communiqué from the region calling for “the urgent negotiation of an international legally binding instrument on autonomy in weapons systems.”…

The USA has announced a ‘Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy’ during the international REAIM conference at the Hague, Netherlands on 16th February 2023.

From the premiere of our very own documentary Immoral Code to the first-ever joint statement on autonomous weapons at the UN General Assembly, 2022 was a year of immense progress in the movement to ensure human control in the use…

With only 3 days to consider and adopt a range of measures relating to the operation of the CCW, a brief period of time was allocated to consideration of the report of the Group of Governmental Experts relating…

For the first time at the United Nations General Assembly, states across the world united in delivering a joint statement on autonomous weapons systems. With a total of 70 states joining, this was the largest cross-regional group statement…