Japan: Retain Human Control Over the Use of Force

Expand © 2012 Russell Christian for Human Rights Watch (Tokyo) – Japan should throw its support behind growing calls to prohibit weapons systems that would select and attack targets without human intervention, Human Rights Watch said today. Mary Wareham, arms advocacy director at Human Rights Watch and global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, will address a symposium on “Human Control over Autonomous Weapon Systems” convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at the University of Tokyo on September 7, 2019. “International law was written for humans, not…

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