Stop Killer Robots Global Meeting Showcases Campaign’s Strength
Jacqulyn Kantack, Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic The Stop Killer Robots campaign’s recent global meeting in San José,Continue Reading
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Latin America and Caribbean Nations Rally Against Autonomous Weapons Systems: Regional Solidarity Crucial in Future Treaty Negotiations
Bonnie Docherty, Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, and Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch ThisContinue Reading
Implementation and Innovation: Humanitarian Disarmament in 2023
Bonnie Docherty, Human Rights Watch & Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic This post also appeared as part of theContinue Reading
Leading Change, Changing Leadership: ICAN Will Miss Beatrice Fihn!
Susi Snyder, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Leaders don’t crave power for its own sake; rather, power gathersContinue Reading
Work to Protect Civilians Begins—Not Ends—at the Dublin Conference to Endorse the Political Declaration on the Use of Explosive Weapons
Katherine Young, Explosive Weapons Monitor On November 18, 2022, states and other stakeholders will meet in Dublin, Ireland, for aContinue Reading
Promoting Civilian Protection: Time to Strengthen Norms on Incendiary Weapons
Sophie Timmermans, Emerging Expert, Forum on the Arms Trade As states gather in Geneva for the Meeting of High ContractingContinue Reading
Civil Society Speaks Out on Need for and Possibilities of Humanitarian Disarmament
At a session of the UN General Assembly’s First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, on October 13, 2022, nongovernmentalContinue Reading
Process over Progress in the Conventional Arms Trade
Raluca Muresan and Alexander Jahns, Control Arms The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed international and regional efforts to regulate the global tradeContinue Reading
A Middle East Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: An Urgent Task for UN First Committee
Britt Gronemeyer, Middle East Treaty Organization The risks imposed by nuclear weapons in the Middle East are growing increasingly alarmingContinue Reading
Cluster Munition Monitor Finds Progress Despite Use in Ukraine
Susan Aboeid, Human Rights Watch Fourteen years after the adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the treaty’s goal ofContinue Reading