Wrapping up a great week in #CostaRica ! The last two days, 33 Latin American and Caribbean States joined a regional conference on #AutonomousWeapons , ending with the adoption of a communiqué calling for an international legal instrument regulating autonomy in weapons systems.

#StopKillerRobots campaigners are on their was to Hofburg Vienna for day 2️⃣ of #HumanityAtTheCrossroads - the Austrian gov't meeting on #AutonomousWeapons in Vienna🇦🇹

#AWS2024

Recap from the 2024 Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons Systems! 🌐🤖 Watch Sanya from SGI share her insights and key takeaways from the conference.

#ActionAtTheCrossRoads #AWS2024 #StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons

Pleasure to participate in the 🇦🇹 Conference on #AutonomousWeapons high-level panel. 🇱🇰 advocates for conventional and WMD disarmament & application of humanitarian principles in warfare. SL supports a legally binding instrument to regulate& prohibit #LAWS #AWS2024 MFA Austria

#自律型兵器 システムの人間への影響をテーマにしたカリブ共同体の会議が9月5、6日に #トリニダード・トバゴ 🇹🇹 で行われます。SGIが共催団体になっており現地からレポートが届きましたのでご覧ください！
#CARICOMAWS Stop Killer Robots
#Caribbean #StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons #HumanRights

For the first session of the #GGEonLAWS in 2023 Austria has tabled a new working paper focusing on meaningful human control and on how to protect human dignity. We are looking forward to fruitful discussions! #CCWUN #autonomousweapons

Still physically recovering from the #GGEonLAWS last night. Result is rather disappointing and does not do justice to the evolution of positions and the quality of discussions we had thanks to our excellent chair Flavio S Damico and his team #CCWUN #autonomousweapons #LAWS

Day 2️⃣: breakouts at the #Manila meeting on #autonomousweapons debating issues such as:

🌊 autonomy in submarines
🔫 proliferation with 3D printers
👮🏾domestic use by the police

#TeamHuman was in📍Vienna for two important meetings on #KillerRobots earlier this month - including the largest ever gov't meeting on #AutonomousWeapons outside of the UN🔥

Here's what we got up to in Austria 🇦🇹👇

Ms Gunjan Chawla tackles the challenges in applying #IHL & harnessing modern tech for civilian protection. Exploring #AI , #AutonomousWeapons , & #CyberOperations , she emphasizes the ICRC's proactive approach.

One day left until ECOWAS #autonomousweapons meeting kicks off in #freetown 🇸🇱⏳

Today: civil society pre meeting opened by Ibrahim Tommy, Executive Director of the Center for Accountability and the Rule of Law (CARL)

📢Hear our Rasmus Weschke on the latest from #CCWUN & what we have to say to states about #AutonomousWeapons
#EWIPA
#IncendiaryWeapons &
#protection of #civilians

📽️👇🇺🇳

🚨An hour ago, and to much applause, ECOWAS representatives adopted the #Freetown Communiqué on #autonomousweapons ,

committing “to support the urgent negotiation of a legally binding instrument”

“with specific regulations and prohibitions”

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#AWS2024Vienna

An early history lesson about the unintended consequences of #autonomousweapons

1️⃣ Good progress at #UNGA , but work remains to be done on #AutonomousWeapons

2️⃣ #EWIPA univrs.&impl. cannot wait

3️⃣ Discuss & ban #IncendiaryWeapons , incl. #WhitePhosphorus

4️⃣ #APMine use never justified

Read our full #CCWUN statement 👇

😏Taktisches UAS hört sich natürlich deutlich harmloser an als #Kampfdrohne . #Rheinmetall entwickelt die übrigens nicht „neu“. Schon im Oktober 2021 wurde über die Kooperation mit dem israelischen Dronenhersteller berichtet. #AutonomousWeapons

And we’re off 🚀

Strong opening by President Julius Maada Bio, recognising that West-Africa has large role to play to halt proliferation of #autonomousweapons

1st panel now featuring Georgia Hinds from ICRC, Calixtus Joseph CARICOM: Caribbean Community, Pia Devota SEHLAC and Juliana van der Berg United Nations

#Belgium 🇧🇪 can make history on 2 May and prohibit #AutonomousWeapons .

Make this happen - call on MPs vote to #StopKillerRobots ! 🗳️
Faites-le!
Doen!

Wouter De Vriendt Guillaume Defossé Hugues Bayet André Flahaut Christophe Lacroix Denis Ducarme Hendrik Bogaert Tim Vandenput Kris Verduyckt

So much for #NuclearFree 🇳🇿 stuff.co.nz/national/polit… #NuclearWeapons #AutonomousWeapons #Interoperability 🙄DAWN Feminist CWS New Zealand Ministry for Disarmament Andrew Chen Medical Association for Prevention of War D'Hawk🏳️‍🌈 Dimity Hawkins Talei Luscia Pacific Conference of Churches James Bhagwan Pita Ligaiula Tim Jones Reaching Critical Will #StopAUKUS #NuclearBAN

🎯Sneak peek of the Vienna Conference on #AutonomousWeapons Systems starting tomorrow! From those who went to pick up our badges on the day before the conf starts😇
Negotiations can & should not wait any longer‼️Let's hear what delegations say in the next days🧐 #AWS2024Vienna