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Sri Lanka: Exploring contemporary challenges to international humanitarian law

… technological advances in warfare, including autonomous weapon systems and cyber warfare . Ambassador … the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), laying …

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ICRC Position on Autonomous Weapon Systems

… to establish internationally agreed limits on autonomous weapon systems to ensure civilian protection, … efforts to establish international limits on autonomous weapon systems that address the …

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ICRC Position on Autonomous Weapon Systems

… to establish internationally agreed limits on autonomous weapon systems to ensure civilian protection, … efforts to establish international limits on autonomous weapon systems that address the …

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Peter Maurer: “We must decide what role we want human beings to play in life-and-death decisions during armed conflicts”

… virtual briefing on the new ICRC position on autonomous weapon systems. Excellencies, Ladies and … the ICRC's analysis and recommendations about autonomous weapons and to hear your views on …

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ICRC position on autonomous weapon systems

… to establish internationally agreed limits on autonomous weapon systems to address the concern they … binding rules. The ICRC's concerns about autonomous weapon systems Autonomous weapon

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Pakistan: New law to prevent violence against health-care workers, facilities and patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

… services, the entry of unauthorized weapons inside health-care facilities and … its attached department, sub-ordinate offices, autonomous bodies under its administrative … are empowered to regulate these functions autonomously,⁸⁵ as shown by 20 new …

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Joining forces to secure water and sanitation in protracted crises: a new report

… or operations involving the use of explosive weapons. This is powerfully captured in the … urban water utilities had been working as autonomous, decentralized, corporate … WSS service providers that were neither autonomous nor able to control their finances. …

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Webinar: New Technologies of Warfare and Challenges to International Humanitarian Law

… such as cyber tools and increasingly autonomous weapons systems. The webinar will feature … of new means and methods of warfare. (Autonomous Weapon Systems and Cyberwarfare). …

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Looking ahead – the ICRC policy agenda in the UK and Ireland in 2021

… robots and the technological revolution Autonomous weapons – or killer robots to use the … often spoken about in the future tense. But autonomous weapons and artificial intelligence …

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Disarmament efforts essential to address humanitarian concerns of weapons technologies

… conflict, its knowledge of the effects of weapons on civilians and combatants, and its … about developments towards increasingly autonomous weapon systems, understood as … that internationally agreed limits on autonomous weapons must be established with …

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