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A legal loophole could grant computer systems many legal rights people have – threatening human rights and dignity and setting up some real legal and moral problems.
The debate on autonomous weapons isn’t paying enough attention to the technology already in use.
A standard element of international humanitarian law since 1899 should guide countries as they consider banning lethal autonomous weapons systems.
Some 200 Central Americans who fled violence at home want to apply for asylum in the US. Trump says they’re ‘not welcome.’ Here, key info on the ‘caravan’ to the US-Mexico border.
What can international law do to help curb the use of a lethal, indiscriminate weapon?
Under proposed changes, the war crime offence of murder, in a non-international armed conflict, would not apply to collateral civilian deaths resulting from an otherwise lawful attack.
The future of warfare may include many lethal autonomous weapons, but the world can’t decide how, or if, to regulate them.
Hardly an enthusiastic upholder of human rights, Qatar has been welcomed as a participant in R2P – even though that obligates it to do basically nothing.
On November 24, two weeks before the Senate Intelligence Committee released its “torture report,” Reprieve, a UK-based human rights NGO, published the results of its latest investigation into President…
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