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14/11/2022

Killer Robots: Negotiate Treaty in New Forum

Human Wrongs Watch

By Human Rights Watch*

Delaying Needed Law Endangers Civilians, Generates Insecurity

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© 2022 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch
  • Governments should move the discussions of a treaty on autonomous weapons systems, also known as “killer robots,” away from meetings of an existing weapons treaty, where they are stalled.
  • Such weapons systems operate without meaningful human control, delegating life-and-death decisions to machines. Several countries are investing in the technology to develop them.

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14/11/2022

Children of African Descent ‘Not Considered Children at All’, Human Rights Experts

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(UN News)* — In a report issued on Tuesday [], UN human rights experts outline how discrimination affects black boys and girls worldwide to the extent that they are not considered children, even in the eyes of the law.

Children wait to enter their classroom at a school in Burkina Faso.
© UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau | Children wait to enter their classroom at a school in Burkina Faso.

They said unresolved legacies of trade and trafficking in enslaved Africans, as well as colonialism, post-colonial apartheid and segregation, continue to harm these children today.

The report by the Working Group on people of African descent highlights discrimination in areas that include the administration of justice, law enforcement, education, and health. It has been presented to the UN General Assembly in New York. 

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