New publication alert! 🚨 New edition of our #UNGA #FirstCommittee briefing book provides background information and recommendations from civil society coalitions to government delegations. Check it out and get ready for disarmament action in October!
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🆕 @rcw-wilpf.bsky.social 's #FirstCommittee briefing book is out – and we contributed a chapter on #AutonomousWeapons.

📖 Read it here: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...

🧵Here's what you need to know ahead of these #UNGA discussions ⬇️

Qué gusto haber abierto este ciclo de la @FIP_AL sobre IA y periodismo, reflexionando críticamente sobre los riesgos, sesgos y desigualdades que reproduce la #IA.
Gracias a las organizadoras por la invitación y a lxs más de 60 periodistas participantes. 💻

🔴 Grateful to @fossiltreaty.bsky.social for the space to discuss humanitarian disarmament and the challenge of banning #AWS.
We talked about digital dehumanization, algorithmic violence & more.

🎥 EN youtube.com/watch?v=BHga...
Also available in ES | FR 🙏

📣 This June 25, I’ll join Richard Moyes in a powerful dialogue hosted by @fossiltreaty.bsky.social
We’ll share lessons from the @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social campaign on banning autonomous weapons and reshaping global norms.
See you there!
Register here 👇🏾
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Pope Leo XIV calls for a “disarmed and disarming peace” and highlights AI as a major ethical challenge.

Could a new encyclical on AI and human rights emerge?

We need moral clarity on autonomous weapons.
#AI #Disarmament #PopeLeoXIV #KillerRobots

Glad to see my contribution to the recent Amassuru/Gensac/Sehlac bulletin "Arms & Gender 2025" featured in the latest newsletter from @forumarmstrade.bsky.social
📌You can read the full newsletter here: mailchi.mp/forumarmstra...

1/ I'm very alarmed by the prospect of countries in Europe leaving the Mine Ban Treaty. A short thread on some relevant resources and responses is below (a topic which I brought up briefly in my #Trump50Days commentary earlier this week 👇) @minefreeworld.bsky.social

“This aid suspension is not sending a good message to the parts of the world who really depend on us,” said Sera Koulabdara, who fled Laos for the US when she was 6. “Congress really needs to reconsider this decision and hold our current administration accountable.”
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🔊 Listen to this important talk from one of our #StopKillerRobots campaigners @giselalujan.bsky.social on the ways #AutonomousWeapons can further structural inequalities 👇

✨ Excited to share my talk from "Harms and Risks of AI in the Military," where I discuss how Autonomous Weapons could fuel organized crime in Latin America, heighten violence against women, and deepen structural inequalities.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/CNwc09cvIV4?...

📍New Article: #AWS in the Hands of Crime: A Nearby Threat in Latin America with Gendered Implications, for the #LookingAhead2025 series by
@ForumArmsTrade
Read➡️https://forumarmstrade.org/blog/automated-weapons-systems-in-the-hands-of-crime-a-nearby-threat-in-latin-america-with-gendered-implications