It is imperative Australia shows commitment to urgently needed action on autonomous weapons this #UNGA80

16.10.2025 06:18 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Talks are kicking off at #UNGeneva in the #CCWUN It is time Australia supports a legally binding instrument to address #AutonomousWeapons Specific prohibitions and regulations are urgently needed to #StopKillerRobots

Night Owls can watch live 📺:
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c...

01.09.2025 10:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Motivated by a recent TedTalk by a "defence product" company CEO, who pitches the company & its AI weapons as really being "about fostering peace", I've written a short blog post about why it is dangerous, if not naive, that these marketing narratives increasingly seem to inform gov't policy.

05.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

While numerous challenges remain, #landmine use has dramatically dropped over the past 25 years thanks to the Mine Ban Treaty. With their intention to leave the treaty, #Estonia, #Latvia, #Lithuania, #Poland, and #Finland are undermining 25 years of humanitarian progress.

#ProtectMineBan

24.04.2025 10:51 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Withdrawing from Mine Ban Treaty Would Be a Self-Inflicted Strategic Defeat for European Security Withdrawing from Mine Ban Treaty Would Be a Self-Inflicted Strategic Defeat for European Security

Wise words from Matthew Breay Bolton on #Finland, #Poland, #Estonia, #Latvia and #Lithuania and #landmines:
inkstickmedia.com/withdrawing-...

25.04.2025 15:10 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

**New Blog Post** Read our snapshot of the complex web of research ties between Defence and #Univerisities - many anchored on projects about autonomous systems #RnD. Universities must ensure they do their part to #stopkillerrobots

03.05.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Some analysis of the #autonomousweapons consultations from this week at the #UN in New York. This message ⏬⏬ is one we hope the new Australian parliament engages with, and the government will act upon, by supporting new international law negotiated in an inclusive forum to protect humanity.

16.05.2025 01:24 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Killer Robots are a #HumanRights issue.

Earlier this month, at a series of #StopKillerRobots regional briefings in New York, @hrw.org'S Bonnie Docherty outlined the four key ways that #AutonomousWeapons contravene human rights ahead of the first #UNGA meeting on Human Rights on 12 and 13 May.

28.04.2025 11:45 — 👍 30    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

🧵 #Thread on the resumption of hostilities in #Gaza:

We are gravely concerned by the breaking of the ceasefire in Gaza and the resumption of attacks. We support calls for an immediate and enduring ceasefire.

Read our full statement: www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/resumpt...
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31.03.2025 10:42 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Britain launches AUKUS parliamentary inquiry amid 'geopolitical shifts' The United Kingdom launches a parliamentary inquiry into the AUKUS partnership, with its scope to include the "impact of geopolitical shifts" on the deal since it was signed.

The United Kingdom has launched a parliamentary inquiry into the AUKUS partnership, with its scope to include the "impact of geopolitical shifts" on the deal since it was signed.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

02.04.2025 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

An interview from last year below - a conversation with Priya Kunan from 3CR on autonomous weapons and the Australian context - off the back of my piece for @declassifiedaus.bsky.social on Australia's resistance to global progress towards essential and urgent new international law.

04.04.2025 04:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0