On Saturday, 5 September, around 3am, the #CCWUN GGE adopted by consensus the “elements of an instrument” on #AutonomousWeapons.
Now they must make that instrument a reality.
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Now they must make that instrument a reality.
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September 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
On Saturday, 5 September, around 3am, the #CCWUN GGE adopted by consensus the “elements of an instrument” on #AutonomousWeapons.
Now they must make that instrument a reality.
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Now they must make that instrument a reality.
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The elements adopted are not enough to provide a comprehensive response to the ethical, humanitarian, legal and security challenges of autonomous weapons. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /4
September 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
The elements adopted are not enough to provide a comprehensive response to the ethical, humanitarian, legal and security challenges of autonomous weapons. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /4
Machines must never decide who lives or dies. Yet the anti-personnel prohibitions were absent from the debate. Stronger legal safeguards against digital dehumanisation and automated harm are essential. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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September 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Machines must never decide who lives or dies. Yet the anti-personnel prohibitions were absent from the debate. Stronger legal safeguards against digital dehumanisation and automated harm are essential. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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States must turn years of discussion into binding rules that safeguard humanity, uphold meaningful human control and ensure compliance with international laws.
Time is running out, States must act now.
#CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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Time is running out, States must act now.
#CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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September 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
States must turn years of discussion into binding rules that safeguard humanity, uphold meaningful human control and ensure compliance with international laws.
Time is running out, States must act now.
#CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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Time is running out, States must act now.
#CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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The GGE has concluded its work. Now states must continue their commitment towards achieving a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Stop Killer Robots urges states to launch negotiations in November at the 7th CCW review conference. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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September 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
The GGE has concluded its work. Now states must continue their commitment towards achieving a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Stop Killer Robots urges states to launch negotiations in November at the 7th CCW review conference. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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With elements of an instrument agreed, This could be a significant step for international law and the protection of civilians in conflict - if states can turn these elements into a legal treaty and strengthen certain elements during negotiations. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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September 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
With elements of an instrument agreed, This could be a significant step for international law and the protection of civilians in conflict - if states can turn these elements into a legal treaty and strengthen certain elements during negotiations. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons
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The current text only applies in armed conflict, the provisions are vague and they do not include key concepts such as ‘predictability’, ‘reliability’, ‘explainability’ and ‘traceability’.
They still allow autonomous weapons to identify and kill human beings. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /5
They still allow autonomous weapons to identify and kill human beings. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /5
September 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
The current text only applies in armed conflict, the provisions are vague and they do not include key concepts such as ‘predictability’, ‘reliability’, ‘explainability’ and ‘traceability’.
They still allow autonomous weapons to identify and kill human beings. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /5
They still allow autonomous weapons to identify and kill human beings. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /5
Regrettably, after three years of painstaking work, important elements of the draft instrument were deleted in the final hours, as highly militarised states pushed their interests over humanitarian protections. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /3
September 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Regrettably, after three years of painstaking work, important elements of the draft instrument were deleted in the final hours, as highly militarised states pushed their interests over humanitarian protections. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /3
Today's decisions will shape the future young people inherit.
Our #Youth Delegates were in Geneva this week for UN discussuons on #AutonomousWeapons. Here's what they had to say about their experience — and why young voices belong in these conversations.
#StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons #CCWUN
Our #Youth Delegates were in Geneva this week for UN discussuons on #AutonomousWeapons. Here's what they had to say about their experience — and why young voices belong in these conversations.
#StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons #CCWUN
September 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Today's decisions will shape the future young people inherit.
Our #Youth Delegates were in Geneva this week for UN discussuons on #AutonomousWeapons. Here's what they had to say about their experience — and why young voices belong in these conversations.
#StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons #CCWUN
Our #Youth Delegates were in Geneva this week for UN discussuons on #AutonomousWeapons. Here's what they had to say about their experience — and why young voices belong in these conversations.
#StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons #CCWUN
"Clear, binding rules would help ensure that increasingly #AutonomousWarfare does not make violence easier to unleash and harder to control."
❗A key message to states as the #CCWUN in Geneva concludes today.
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❗A key message to states as the #CCWUN in Geneva concludes today.
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Autonomous weapons can select targets without human help – now is the time for binding rules
Officials are meeting in Geneva to negotiate urgent controls on autonomous weapons.
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September 4, 2026 at 8:28 AM
"Clear, binding rules would help ensure that increasingly #AutonomousWarfare does not make violence easier to unleash and harder to control."
❗A key message to states as the #CCWUN in Geneva concludes today.
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❗A key message to states as the #CCWUN in Geneva concludes today.
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A Genève, 42 États, dont la France, appellent à l'ouverture de négociations pour un traité sur les armes autonomes.
Il est en effet URGENT d'adopter un cadre juridique face à la place croissante de l'IA dans les armes: cette déclaration doit se traduire en actions #StopKillerRobots #CCWUN
Il est en effet URGENT d'adopter un cadre juridique face à la place croissante de l'IA dans les armes: cette déclaration doit se traduire en actions #StopKillerRobots #CCWUN
🚨🚨“We are therefore ready to move ahead towards negotiations.” #CCWUN closes with a joint statement from 42 states affirming that the Chair’s rolling text discussed this week can form the basis of treaty negotiations on #KillerRobots.
September 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A Genève, 42 États, dont la France, appellent à l'ouverture de négociations pour un traité sur les armes autonomes.
Il est en effet URGENT d'adopter un cadre juridique face à la place croissante de l'IA dans les armes: cette déclaration doit se traduire en actions #StopKillerRobots #CCWUN
Il est en effet URGENT d'adopter un cadre juridique face à la place croissante de l'IA dans les armes: cette déclaration doit se traduire en actions #StopKillerRobots #CCWUN
#MondayMotivation Cette semaine, réunion du groupe d'experts gouvernementaux #CCWUN à Geneve pour discuter des règles sur les armes autonomes (aka les robots tueurs). Un enjeu majeur pour le #droitinternational et les conflits actuels et à venir.
Pour suivre les débats👇
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1st Meeting - 1st Session Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 2024
Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons System Geneva, 4-8 March and 26-30 August 2024
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March 4, 2024 at 10:19 AM
#MondayMotivation Cette semaine, réunion du groupe d'experts gouvernementaux #CCWUN à Geneve pour discuter des règles sur les armes autonomes (aka les robots tueurs). Un enjeu majeur pour le #droitinternational et les conflits actuels et à venir.
Pour suivre les débats👇
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🚨 SIDE EVENT + PUBLICATION LAUNCH: join us for today's side event on the progress of the #GGE on LAWS after a decade of work on #AutonomousWeapons and ahead of the November #CCWUN Review Conference later this year where the group's mandate will be reviewed.
March 4, 2026 at 9:59 AM
🚨 SIDE EVENT + PUBLICATION LAUNCH: join us for today's side event on the progress of the #GGE on LAWS after a decade of work on #AutonomousWeapons and ahead of the November #CCWUN Review Conference later this year where the group's mandate will be reviewed.
We're back in the room for the afternoon session of the #CCWUN meeting on #AutonomousWeapons. Over these first two days of the meeting, we've made a number of statements
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⬇️ Full statements
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March 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
We're back in the room for the afternoon session of the #CCWUN meeting on #AutonomousWeapons. Over these first two days of the meeting, we've made a number of statements
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⬇️ Full statements
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The current context that the current United Nations meeting on #AutonomousWeapons are taking place in demonstrate that it's time for governments to show leadership and negotiate a treaty to stop the automation of killing. Here's what happened on Day 1 of #CCWUN meeting on #KillerRobots
March 3, 2026 at 10:31 AM
The current context that the current United Nations meeting on #AutonomousWeapons are taking place in demonstrate that it's time for governments to show leadership and negotiate a treaty to stop the automation of killing. Here's what happened on Day 1 of #CCWUN meeting on #KillerRobots
States could launch negotiations on an #AutonomousWeapons instrument at the November 2026 #CCWUN Review Conference.
While the CCW has seen issues in reaching consensus and efforts to undermine its work, States must withstand these challenges to achieve an urgently needed treaty.
While the CCW has seen issues in reaching consensus and efforts to undermine its work, States must withstand these challenges to achieve an urgently needed treaty.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
States could launch negotiations on an #AutonomousWeapons instrument at the November 2026 #CCWUN Review Conference.
While the CCW has seen issues in reaching consensus and efforts to undermine its work, States must withstand these challenges to achieve an urgently needed treaty.
While the CCW has seen issues in reaching consensus and efforts to undermine its work, States must withstand these challenges to achieve an urgently needed treaty.
It is encouraging and significant to the impact of a future treaty that states with varying interests in this issue can find common ground on the need to move forward on regulation. Now they must act on it – and 2026 presents a key opportunity. #CCWUN
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It is encouraging and significant to the impact of a future treaty that states with varying interests in this issue can find common ground on the need to move forward on regulation. Now they must act on it – and 2026 presents a key opportunity. #CCWUN
At last week’s meeting of High Contracting Parties - four more states – 🇦🇴 🇭🇺 🇲🇿 🇭🇺 – joined a group now totalling 46 that believes the current #CCWUN text is a sufficient basis to start negotiations on an #AutonomousWeapons instrument. #CCWUN
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
At last week’s meeting of High Contracting Parties - four more states – 🇦🇴 🇭🇺 🇲🇿 🇭🇺 – joined a group now totalling 46 that believes the current #CCWUN text is a sufficient basis to start negotiations on an #AutonomousWeapons instrument. #CCWUN
“Achieving meaningful regulation is now possible.... Next year states must therefore consider all their options for meaningfully continuing their work by starting negotiations - and not let the progress they have made so far be wasted.”
👇 Our #CCWUN recap: www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/novembe...
👇 Our #CCWUN recap: www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/novembe...
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“Achieving meaningful regulation is now possible.... Next year states must therefore consider all their options for meaningfully continuing their work by starting negotiations - and not let the progress they have made so far be wasted.”
👇 Our #CCWUN recap: www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/novembe...
👇 Our #CCWUN recap: www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/novembe...
All eyes must now turn to the remaining sessions of the GGE LAWS, where the current mandate will conclude in 2026 in advance of the #CCWUN Seventh Review Conference.
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
All eyes must now turn to the remaining sessions of the GGE LAWS, where the current mandate will conclude in 2026 in advance of the #CCWUN Seventh Review Conference.
The resolution
➡️stresses the need for human control over the use of force
➡️makes reference to the UN Secretary-General’s calls to begin negotiations on a legally binding instrument
➡️references the SecGen’s comments that work on #AWS in #CCWUN is going “in the right direction”
➡️stresses the need for human control over the use of force
➡️makes reference to the UN Secretary-General’s calls to begin negotiations on a legally binding instrument
➡️references the SecGen’s comments that work on #AWS in #CCWUN is going “in the right direction”
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🚨 Our latest #Substack is out!
It considers progress toward an #AutonomousWeapons treaty at the UN in Geneva amid the geopolitical shift toward normalising automated harm, rearmament, and an offensive approach to conflict. #CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
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It considers progress toward an #AutonomousWeapons treaty at the UN in Geneva amid the geopolitical shift toward normalising automated harm, rearmament, and an offensive approach to conflict. #CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
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What happens in Geneva, doesn't stay in Geneva
Progress toward an autonomous weapons treaty at the UN in Geneva amid the geopolitical shift toward normalising automated harm, rearmament, and an offensive approach to conflict.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚨 Our latest #Substack is out!
It considers progress toward an #AutonomousWeapons treaty at the UN in Geneva amid the geopolitical shift toward normalising automated harm, rearmament, and an offensive approach to conflict. #CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
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It considers progress toward an #AutonomousWeapons treaty at the UN in Geneva amid the geopolitical shift toward normalising automated harm, rearmament, and an offensive approach to conflict. #CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
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🇨🇭GENEVA: at the #CCWUN meetings on #KillerRobots states made progress refining the rolling text - which includes elements of a possible instrument.
At the September meeting, #Brazil delivered a statement on behalf of 42 states, declaring their readiness to begin negotiations on an instrument.
At the September meeting, #Brazil delivered a statement on behalf of 42 states, declaring their readiness to begin negotiations on an instrument.
September 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🇨🇭GENEVA: at the #CCWUN meetings on #KillerRobots states made progress refining the rolling text - which includes elements of a possible instrument.
At the September meeting, #Brazil delivered a statement on behalf of 42 states, declaring their readiness to begin negotiations on an instrument.
At the September meeting, #Brazil delivered a statement on behalf of 42 states, declaring their readiness to begin negotiations on an instrument.
👏 Thanks to the campaigners who worked tirelessly at #UNGeneva earlier this month!
Your advocacy helped push 42 states to declare that they are ready to negotiate a treaty on #AutonomousWeapons.
Let’s keep going. 💪
#CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
📸: Anatole Serexhe
Your advocacy helped push 42 states to declare that they are ready to negotiate a treaty on #AutonomousWeapons.
Let’s keep going. 💪
#CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
📸: Anatole Serexhe
September 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
👏 Thanks to the campaigners who worked tirelessly at #UNGeneva earlier this month!
Your advocacy helped push 42 states to declare that they are ready to negotiate a treaty on #AutonomousWeapons.
Let’s keep going. 💪
#CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
📸: Anatole Serexhe
Your advocacy helped push 42 states to declare that they are ready to negotiate a treaty on #AutonomousWeapons.
Let’s keep going. 💪
#CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
📸: Anatole Serexhe
#AI and automated decision making are being used with increasing devastating humanitarian impacts in current conflicts.
The world must act before it’s too late.
#CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
The world must act before it’s too late.
#CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
September 2025 GGE Joint statement – Stop Killer Robots
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September 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
#AI and automated decision making are being used with increasing devastating humanitarian impacts in current conflicts.
The world must act before it’s too late.
#CCWUN #StopKillerRobots
The world must act before it’s too late.
#CCWUN #StopKillerRobots