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While the use of incendiary weapons (such as thermite bombs) is permitted against military targets, the use of such weapons against civilian targets - as Russia appears to be doing - is a war crime.
The first women to clear dangerous explosives in Libya are part of an international trend for gender equity in the job.
Thank you to Costa Rica and FUNPADEM for organizing this important conference. I will address some of the social and humanitarian consequences of autonomous weapons systems.
As a co-founder of the Stop Killer Robots campaign, Human Rights Watch fully supports its call for countries to adopt a legally-binding instrument on autonomy in weapon systems.
The push to prohibit and regulate autonomous weapons systems made significant progress last month when nearly every country in Latin America and the Caribbean endorsed a new communiqué calling for the “urgent negotiation” of a binding international treaty.