Community Or Chaos - 04-04-2017 - Fully Autonomous Weapons - Mary Wareham - Human Rights Watch
Killer Robot Autonomous Weapons Champagne - Mary Wareham is advocacy director of the Arms Division, where she leads Human Rights Watch’s advocacy against particularly problematic weapons that pose a significant threat to civilians. She is a the global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Ro...
The Global Ban on Chemical Weapons Hits a Snag
In 1993, governments around the world agreed to a landmark arms control treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention. It prohibits countries from building chemical weapons, using chemical weapons and requires countries to destroy whatever stockpiles of chemical weapons they may have.
The way treatie...
Inside Geneva's 100th episode: the war in Syria, killer robots and justice in Myanmar
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Inside Geneva is marking its 100th podcast episode this week. In this episode host Imogen Foulkes looks back at some of the podcast highlights.
This episode starts with an assessment of how humanitarians coped with the war in Syria.
Jan Egeland, former head of the United Nations...
Assessing the Laws of War
At their core, the laws of war seek to preserve humanity in the most difficult conditions. As Dr. Cordula Droege, the chief legal officer and head of the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (or ICRC) recently wrote for Just Security, “Understood in simplest terms, the l...
From landmines to killer robots — inside the campaigns to ban weapons of war
It was the stuff of scifi blockbuster movie The Terminator in the early 1980s, but now lethal autonomous weapons systems are actually being used in conflict zones around the world. And the arms race is on to develop more effective, more deadly killing machines, that don't need human inputs to do ...
Sunday Extra 6 July 2025
Ukraine has joined Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in withdrawing from the UN's landmine treaty. Mary Wareham from Human Rights Watch explains what is at stake. Rebecca Hetherington, co-star to Australia's favourite childhood puppet, Mr Squiggle, celebrates the upcoming exhibition at the National ...
Ukraine withdraws from landmine treaty
More than ONE million lives have been lost on both sides of the war in Ukraine, since Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
Throughout the conflict, Russia and Ukraine have used anti-personnel mines, a weapon of war that comes with a particularly awful legacy.
Now Ukraine has announced it is to wi...
Six Experts Explain the Killer Robots Debate
Why are so many AI researchers so worried about lethal autonomous weapons? What makes autonomous weapons so much worse than any other weapons we have today? And why is it so hard for countries to come to a consensus about autonomous weapons? Not surprisingly, the short answer is: it’s complicated...
