Mary Wareham
@marywareham.bsky.social
Arms Director, Human Rights Watch @hrw.org
"“Whoever they spot, they kill” - @972mag.com details how Israeli forces have learned from the Ukraine war & are adapting thousands of Chinese-made quadcopter drones & using them to drop grenades & other explosive weapons on civilians in Gaza www.972mag.com/drones-grena...
July 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"“Whoever they spot, they kill” - @972mag.com details how Israeli forces have learned from the Ukraine war & are adapting thousands of Chinese-made quadcopter drones & using them to drop grenades & other explosive weapons on civilians in Gaza www.972mag.com/drones-grena...
Welcoming 🇹🇴 Tonga on board the 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel landmines #166 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
June 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Welcoming 🇹🇴 Tonga on board the 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel landmines #166 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
By joining the Mine Ban Treaty we hope to send a strong message. It is our moral obligation to the victims of antipersonnel landmines esp. the children. Be unequivocal in defending the progress made - newest State Party Marshall Islands tells #MineBanIM meeting
June 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
By joining the Mine Ban Treaty we hope to send a strong message. It is our moral obligation to the victims of antipersonnel landmines esp. the children. Be unequivocal in defending the progress made - newest State Party Marshall Islands tells #MineBanIM meeting
This a time when dedication to humanitarian principles of being tested. If more states start to backslide [and withdraw], what will the history books write about the Mine Ban Convention? - HRH Prince Mired
June 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This a time when dedication to humanitarian principles of being tested. If more states start to backslide [and withdraw], what will the history books write about the Mine Ban Convention? - HRH Prince Mired
In addition to survey & clearance, Syria’s transitional government should urgently work to secure stockpiled landmines & weapons. It should issue an immediate directive prohibiting any new use of antipersonnel mines by any actor in the country - Ayman Sorour, ICBL
June 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In addition to survey & clearance, Syria’s transitional government should urgently work to secure stockpiled landmines & weapons. It should issue an immediate directive prohibiting any new use of antipersonnel mines by any actor in the country - Ayman Sorour, ICBL
Scale of contamination from mines & explosive remnants of war in Syria is believed to be extensive. There’s some data from northeast of the country where MAG & others have operated for years but much more is needed.
June 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Scale of contamination from mines & explosive remnants of war in Syria is believed to be extensive. There’s some data from northeast of the country where MAG & others have operated for years but much more is needed.
“Mines don’t disappear with the end of hostilities.” Since December, 414 people were killed & 592 injured by landmines & explosive remnants of war in #Syria. 30% of the victims were children. - Raed Al-Saleh, Minister for Environment, Emergencies, Disaster Management #MineBanIM
June 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“Mines don’t disappear with the end of hostilities.” Since December, 414 people were killed & 592 injured by landmines & explosive remnants of war in #Syria. 30% of the victims were children. - Raed Al-Saleh, Minister for Environment, Emergencies, Disaster Management #MineBanIM
Side event on civilian harm from antipersonnel landmines, starting now: us02web.zoom.us/j/8363598371...
June 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Side event on civilian harm from antipersonnel landmines, starting now: us02web.zoom.us/j/8363598371...
Cambodian landmine survivor Tun Channereth received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines & handed over the joint appeal from Nobel laureates to the Mine Ban Treaty president today in Geneva: icblcmc.org/api/assets/I...
June 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Cambodian landmine survivor Tun Channereth received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines & handed over the joint appeal from Nobel laureates to the Mine Ban Treaty president today in Geneva: icblcmc.org/api/assets/I...
101 Nobel laureates urge 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇱🇻 Latvia & 🇱🇹 Lithuania to stay in the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines & not withdraw from it: icblcmc.org/api/assets/I...
June 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
101 Nobel laureates urge 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇱🇻 Latvia & 🇱🇹 Lithuania to stay in the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines & not withdraw from it: icblcmc.org/api/assets/I...
Tune in to UN Web TV on Monday at 1:15pm ET for a briefing on the human rights threats posed by autonomous weapons systems & digital decision-making tools: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1f... @hrw.org @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social @amnesty.org @icrc.org
May 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Tune in to UN Web TV on Monday at 1:15pm ET for a briefing on the human rights threats posed by autonomous weapons systems & digital decision-making tools: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1f... @hrw.org @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social @amnesty.org @icrc.org
Rest in Peace Chris Garrett & all those who have died working to clear landmines & explosive remnants of war from Ukraine kyivindependent.com/two-voluntee... His story: www.rferl.org/a/ukriane-br... 📸 Liam Kennedy
May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Rest in Peace Chris Garrett & all those who have died working to clear landmines & explosive remnants of war from Ukraine kyivindependent.com/two-voluntee... His story: www.rferl.org/a/ukriane-br... 📸 Liam Kennedy
Good question. Only 12 countries still produce antipersonnel landmines acc to @minemonitor.bsky.social: www.the-monitor.org/reports/land... United States last produced in 1997 & likely has very limited stocks left after transferring most of them to Ukraine in late 2024.
May 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Good question. Only 12 countries still produce antipersonnel landmines acc to @minemonitor.bsky.social: www.the-monitor.org/reports/land... United States last produced in 1997 & likely has very limited stocks left after transferring most of them to Ukraine in late 2024.
This Thursday, 🇱🇹 #Lithuania's parliament is due to vote on whether to withdraw from the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines. As @minemonitor.bsky.social reports, Lithuania has never produced antipersonnel mines & destroyed its stocks a decade ago www.the-monitor.org/country-prof...
May 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This Thursday, 🇱🇹 #Lithuania's parliament is due to vote on whether to withdraw from the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines. As @minemonitor.bsky.social reports, Lithuania has never produced antipersonnel mines & destroyed its stocks a decade ago www.the-monitor.org/country-prof...
"It hurts your people” - Bosnian landmine survivor Zoran Ješić explains why so many oppose the moves by Finland, Poland, and Baltic states to withdraw from the treaty banning landmines: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... “Antipersonnel landmines are so abhorrent they must never be used again.”
April 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"It hurts your people” - Bosnian landmine survivor Zoran Ješić explains why so many oppose the moves by Finland, Poland, and Baltic states to withdraw from the treaty banning landmines: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... “Antipersonnel landmines are so abhorrent they must never be used again.”
First UN Human Rights Council resolution on antipersonnel landmines, supported by countries from around the world, sends a clear message that these weapons violate fundamental human rights - @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... All countries to accede to & not leave the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.
April 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
First UN Human Rights Council resolution on antipersonnel landmines, supported by countries from around the world, sends a clear message that these weapons violate fundamental human rights - @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... All countries to accede to & not leave the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.
"Dropping flaming barrels of fire from the air"
Horror in South Sudan as improvised incendiary weapons are used on civilian areas, killing & wounding dozens, incl. children, & burning civilian homes, infrastructure - new report from @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... #CCWUN
Horror in South Sudan as improvised incendiary weapons are used on civilian areas, killing & wounding dozens, incl. children, & burning civilian homes, infrastructure - new report from @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... #CCWUN
April 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Dropping flaming barrels of fire from the air"
Horror in South Sudan as improvised incendiary weapons are used on civilian areas, killing & wounding dozens, incl. children, & burning civilian homes, infrastructure - new report from @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... #CCWUN
Horror in South Sudan as improvised incendiary weapons are used on civilian areas, killing & wounding dozens, incl. children, & burning civilian homes, infrastructure - new report from @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... #CCWUN
After years of landmine use, cluster munition attacks & bombardment an urgent, nationwide clearance effort is now needed in #Syria - @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... If not more civilians returning home will be injured & killed by landmines & explosive remnants of war. @minefreeworld.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
After years of landmine use, cluster munition attacks & bombardment an urgent, nationwide clearance effort is now needed in #Syria - @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... If not more civilians returning home will be injured & killed by landmines & explosive remnants of war. @minefreeworld.bsky.social
#GoodNews for the laws of war as the Marshall Islands follows thru on its pledge to ratify the 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel landmines. 165 states are now on board the Mine Ban Treaty. @minefreeworld.bsky.social @hrw.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#GoodNews for the laws of war as the Marshall Islands follows thru on its pledge to ratify the 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel landmines. 165 states are now on board the Mine Ban Treaty. @minefreeworld.bsky.social @hrw.org
I'll never forgive #MSC2018 for making me share the stage with "Sophia" the robot www.hrw.org/news/2018/03... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'll never forgive #MSC2018 for making me share the stage with "Sophia" the robot www.hrw.org/news/2018/03... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social
Women are not merely casualties of conflict; they are essential to its resolution - www.atlantik-bruecke.org/en/beyond-vi... Grateful to @tiranahassan.bsky.social for her leadership at Munich Security Conference, which can always do better to center women in its global discourse. #MSC2025 @hrw.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Women are not merely casualties of conflict; they are essential to its resolution - www.atlantik-bruecke.org/en/beyond-vi... Grateful to @tiranahassan.bsky.social for her leadership at Munich Security Conference, which can always do better to center women in its global discourse. #MSC2025 @hrw.org
Positive move by Thailand for the protection of civilians as it becomes the 88th country to endorse the 2022 Declaration on Protecting Civilians from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas: cms.ewipa.org/uploads/List... #StopBombingCivilians #GoodNews @hrw.org @explosiveweapon.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Positive move by Thailand for the protection of civilians as it becomes the 88th country to endorse the 2022 Declaration on Protecting Civilians from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas: cms.ewipa.org/uploads/List... #StopBombingCivilians #GoodNews @hrw.org @explosiveweapon.bsky.social
How the Israeli military has come to rely heavily on cloud & AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI’s GPT-4 language mode www.972mag.com/microsoft-az...
January 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
How the Israeli military has come to rely heavily on cloud & AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI’s GPT-4 language mode www.972mag.com/microsoft-az...
So many ugly developments in military development of artificial intelligence & autonomous weapons systems in this @automateddecision.bsky.social round-up: automatedresearch.org/news/news-br... Sign-up for these essential updates: automatedresearch.org/sign-up-for-... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
So many ugly developments in military development of artificial intelligence & autonomous weapons systems in this @automateddecision.bsky.social round-up: automatedresearch.org/news/news-br... Sign-up for these essential updates: automatedresearch.org/sign-up-for-... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social
Warm congrats to the next members of the Aotearoa New Zealand's Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control: www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-... It was an honour to serve & help advance humanitarian disarmament at a crucial time for the humanity.
January 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Warm congrats to the next members of the Aotearoa New Zealand's Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control: www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-... It was an honour to serve & help advance humanitarian disarmament at a crucial time for the humanity.