The First 2025 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (GGE LAWS) took place in Geneva on 3–7 March 2025. The Group discussed revisions to the Chair’s rolling text, which consists of five sections or “boxes”. The boxes do not have headings, and there were divergent views about the utility … Read more
First 2025 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Thank you, chair! First of all, many thanks to you, Chair, your team, and the Friends of the Chair, for all the work on this revised text in Box III. Paragraph 1 is a concise reflection of IHL in relation to … Read more
First 2025 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Thank you, chair! We would also appreciate some more time to digest your questions, and seeing them on the screen would be helpful. Meanwhile, we can offer a few comments on other aspects of the text. In paragraph 2, the replacement … Read more
First 2025 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Thank you, Chair! We appreciate your efforts to take us closer to a text that could meet consensus and the opportunity to comment on this revised version. As you requested, we’ll limit our comments to Box I for now. The characterisation of … Read more
First 2025 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Thank you, Chair! The Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security (APILS) is a specialist organisation that works, inter alia, on the development and universalisation of good practices in relation to the legal review of new weapons. Therefore, we are pleased to … Read more
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