Conventional Weapons and the Arms Trade

Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

CCW – Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
25-29 July 2022
The session is broadcast live on https://media.un.org/en/webtvEdit.
The 11 guiding principles (2019)
CCW - LAWS, Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, 3rd Session in 2021
2-8 December 2021, Palais des Nations, Geneva
* Documents
* About the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
* Resource Guide from UN Geneva Library
* Automatic transcripts
* Digital recordings

Documents

CCW – Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
25-29 July 2022
The session is broadcast live on https://media.un.org/en/webtvEdit.
Report of the 2021 GGE on LAWS
Report of the 2019 GGE on LAWS
Report of the 2018 GGE on LAWS
Report of the 2017 GGE on LAWS
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems documents available in ODS

Suggested Readings

UNIDIR on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
UNIDIR, 2021
The Human Element In Decisions About The Use Of Force
UNIDIR, 2020
Safety, Unintentional Risk and Accidents in the Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies
UNIDIR, 2016
Framing Discussions on the Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies
UNIDIR, 2014
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns
UN General Assembly Human Rights Council, 9 April 2013
Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems: Identifying Practical Elements of Human Control
SIPRI and ICRC, 2020
Autonomous Weapon Systems: Implications of Increasing Autonomy in the Critical Functions of Weapons
ICRC, 2020
Stopping Killer Robots Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control
Human Rights Watch, 2020
Reaching Critical Will Meeting coverage of the CCW and the GGE LAWS
UN Library Geneva's Suggested Reading List on LAWS (Zotero)