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GENEVA - The Philippines along with 10 other countries submitted a draft treaty that would ban autonomous weapon systems incapable of being controlled by humans to a United Nations experts' meeting here this week. The proposed ban also covers autonomous weapon systems that are not compliant with international humanitarian law. It requires countries to regulate other autonomous weapon systems to ensure "that meaningful human control is retained" in their entire life cycle. "This draft demonstrates the Philippines' commitment to preventing machines and algorithms from taki...

Philippine experts recently briefed United Nations (UN) diplomats on how best practices in the Bangsamoro promote the humanitarian norms of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), a landmark treaty that seeks to limit warfare by balancing security considerations with humanitarian protection.

(UN photo) GENEVA - Philippine civil society experts briefed United Nations (UN) diplomats on how best practices in the Bangsamoro promote the humanitarian norms of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), a landmark treaty that seeks to limit warfare by balancing security considerations with humanitarian protection. The CCW is an umbrella treaty composed of five protocols, each dealing with the prohibition or regulation of specific weapons. Two of the protocols - Amended Protocol II on mines, booby traps, and other explosive devices, and Protocol V on explosive remnants of war (ERW) - pr...

The Philippines raised concerns over the New People’s Army (NPA)’s continued use of improvised explosive devices (IED) functioning as landmines at a United Nations experts’ meeting in Geneva, Switzerland a day after the terrorist group reportedly detonated an IED in Samar, killing one soldier and in

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