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May 15 • 4 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Director-General of the @OPCW, which services the #ChemicalWeapons Convention, provides an implementation overview. All chemical weapons stocks held by states parties have now been destroyed except in US, which hopes to complete this task in September. #RevCon5 #CWCrevcon Image
Over the past decade chemical weapons have been used in Iraq, Malaysia, Russia, Syria & UK - @OPCW director-general. Last use was in Russia in 2020. Image
@OPCW Sorry to miss the rest of this important statement as civil society were kicked upstairs
Kicked upstairs to the “nosebleed” section of this giant plenary room en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosebleed… Image

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May 15
Governments should protect the integrity of the international treaty banning #ChemicalWeapons by fully implementing it & by ensuring accountability for any violations - @hrw on the Review Conference, which opens in the Hague today hrw.org/news/2023/05/1… #CWCRevcon
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@hrw @henkvdKwast @minbuza @balkeesjarrah @loucharbon @OPCW @OPCW_ST @UN_Disarmament @INakamitsu @cwccoalition The #ChemicalWeapons Convention is the world’s most universally accepted humanitarian disarmament treaty. At least 140 of the 193 countries that have ratified it will attend the milestone 5th Review Conference in the Hague this week #CWCRevcon #RevCon5
I'm attending the 5th Review Conference of the #ChemicalWeapons Convention this week. It's @hrw's first participation in a CWC meeting after years of being denied entry. Yet inexplicably other civil society groups are still blocked hrw.org/news/2023/05/1… #CWCRevCon #RevCon5 Image
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Feb 22
"Unlawful & appalling" - Russia's April 2022 cluster munition strike on Kramatorsk train station remains one of the deadliest single incidents for civilians since its invasion of Ukraine a year ago - @hrw @situ_research urge accountability hrw.org/news/2023/02/2… @banclusterbombs
Over 1,000 people fleeing the Ukraine conflict were crowded on Kramatorsk's train platform on 6 April 2022 when the cluster munition hit, releasing dozens of submunitions containing thousands of fragments - @hrw & @situ_research hrw.org/video-photos/i…
@hrw @situ_research Each ballistic missile equipped with a 9N123K cluster munition warhead delivers 50 submunitions containing sharp metal fragments. At #Kramatorsk station, these weapons killed at least 58 civilians & injured 100+ more - @hrw @situ_research hrw.org/news/2023/02/2… @banclusterbombs
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Jun 8, 2022
The photo that changed the world: 50 years ago @nickut captured Kim Phuc & other children fleeing an incendiary weapons attack in #Vietnam washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… The United States air force had dropped 4 napalm bombs on a village where civilians were sheltering @hrw #CCWUN
@nickut @hrw @Harvard_ACCPI @UN_Disarmament @DisarmamentIRL @kim_foundation Public revulsion over the suffering of napalm victim Kim Phuc & other civilians in #Vietnam increased pressure on the US to stop the war, as @nickut explains in @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… That happened less than 3 years later with the fall of Saigon.
Public outrage at civilian suffering from US napalm use in Vietnam led to stronger rules protecting civilians in warfare. In 1981 governments adopted new international law prohibiting aerial incendiary weapons attacks in civilian areas hrw.org/topic/arms/inc… #CCWUN Protocol III
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Aug 10, 2021
Prospect of autonomous weapons is of deep concern globally & for #NewZealand. Machines making life & death decisions challenge fundamental values. #AWSDialogueNZ #KeepCtrl #TeamHuman
#NewZealand Govt has conducted a survey to collect views from the public. There’s limited public awareness but it found 72% opposed use of lethal autonomous weapons systems. Oppose machines being used to kill. #AWSDialogueNZ #KeepCtrl
#NewZealand government would prefer legally-binding rules on autonomous weapons systems. See the most effective control in a forum that works & delivers. #CCwUN must rise to the challenge before it. Time is off the essence! @PhilTwyford #AWSDialogueNZ
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Aug 10, 2021
Unlike before the pandemic, I’m now following this week’s #CCWUN diplomatic meeting on #KillerRobots from a great distance: hrw.org/news/2021/08/0… Being in #Aotearoa #NewZealand provides a refreshing new perspective. #AWSDialogueNZ @hrw
@hrw @UNGeneva @ousmannoor @BanKillerRobots @UN_Disarmament Military investments into lethal autonomous weapons systems are taking us down a dangerous path for global peace & security. Machines have no moral agency, empathy or responsibility - @NoelSharkey @icracnet #AWSDialogueNZ #KillerRobots #CCWUN
Fundamental challenges raised by removing human control from the use of force are only rising the longer it takes to regulate. As retired Maj. Gen. Mike Smith notes accountability cannot be transferred to machines. #AWSDialogueNZ #KillerRobots #CCWUN
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Jun 1, 2021
Last month I wrote about the Turkish-manufactured loitering munition used in #Libya hrw.org/news/2021/05/1… Regarded as only real form of “offensive” autonomous weapon deployed today. Highlights urgent need for regulation now.
Little is know about this autonomous weapon system + even less about the circumstances of its use in #Libya. I wrote to its manufacturer #Turkey in 2019 but never received a response: stopkillerrobots.org/wp-content/upl…
#Turkey has barely contributed to the diplomatic talks on concerns over removing human control from the use of force. But that doesn't give it the green light to develop autonomous weapons systems. Recent media interest should provide much-needed scrutiny. #KillerRobots
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