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Press freedom, Belarus opposition or Greta for Nobel Peace Prize?

There is no public shortlist, and only the number of nominations is known -- 329 this year.

AS a soldier runs from the battlefield, he's spotted by a suicide drone loitering in the sky overhead.The killing machine dives down on its target and

By ZACHARY FRYER-BIGGS | Special To The Washington Post | Published: February 19, 2021 The camouflage-clad cadets are huddled around a miniature arena in the basement of a building dug into the cliffs on the West Point campus. Theyre watching a robotic tank about the height of a soda can with a metal spear attached whir into action. Surrounded by balloons of various colors representing either enemy fighters or civilians, the tank, acting on its own, uses a thumbnail-size camera to home in on a...

Stalled Diplomatic Talks Highlight Urgent Need for Political Leadership Campaign to Stop Killer Robots press briefing at the United Nations in New York in October 2019. © 2019 Ari Beser (Washington, DC) – More than three in five people responding to a new online survey in 28 countries oppose using weapons systems, commonly called “killer robots,” that select and attack targets without further human intervention, Human Rights Watch said today. The survey,...

News Author: Corporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson] Published: 29/01/2021 Drone-enabled surveillance is fast becoming all-pervasive, having moved rapidly from military combat to other areas of law enforcement and migration control. “This raises new challenges for international human rights law and international humanitarian law rights because our civil liberties may be impacted as drones are used to monitor our actions and movements", says i...

Students hold up a three finger salute during a protest. © 2020 Peerapon Boonyakiat/AP On #HumanRightsDay 2020, we’ve decided to focus on the inspiring moments of an extremely difficult year. There were many bright spots, from the caretakers and essential workers globally persevering during this pandemic, to the protesters who were inspired to march by the murder of George Floyd. From the people in Lebanon who came together to help each other after a horribl...