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This is the chair’s summary of #AWS2024Vienna

Thanks to all the excellent panelists, and my wonderful team.
Now we need to make it count!

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🚨 Today #Belgium 🇧🇪 has the opportunity to lead the way on #AutonomousWeapons as it did with landmines and cluster munitions.

Wouter De Vriendt Peter Buysrogge ✌ Hendrik Bogaert
Guillaume Defossé Hugues Bayet
André Flahaut Denis Ducarme Tim Vandenput
Kris Verduyckt Theo Francken

how across the realities of #AUKUS are you? Do you understand the national, regional and global implications of this military alliance, and its nuclear dimensions?
If not, have a read of this excellent article from Ray Acheson - now online at Counterpunch counterpunch.org/2024/04/21/sol…

Last week, survivors and activists met with states in Oslo to demand an end to the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, which is causing grave harm to civilians across the world. Laura Varella has the scoop! 📰: reachingcriticalwill.org/disarmament-fo…

#StopBombingCivilians #EWIPA

AUKUS is more than an awkward acronym. It's a military alliance that will proliferate nuclear technology, impose radioactive waste on First Nations, develop autonomous weapons and other high-tech weapons, and more. My latest for CounterPunch.

counterpunch.org/2024/04/21/sol…

Feminism calls for justice everywhere, also in #Palestine

Listen to the latest episode of Mind the GAPS, where WCLAC Palestine مركز المرأة للإرشاد القانوني @oxfam Fionnuala Ní Aoláin & WILPF join a public conversation on Palestine as a feminist issue
open.spotify.com/episode/37sGQX…

BREAKING: Arms to Israel court case reveals a 'Hiatus' in legal assessments & a delay in decisions.

'the SOS for Business and Trade hasn’t considered any violations or atrocities from the last 3 months in their decision to keep exporting arms to Israel.'
caat.org.uk/news/media-rel…

To learn more about gender and disarmament, explore the valuable resources in the database that is maintained by our WILPF colleagues at Reaching Critical Will Reaching Critical Will. reachingcriticalwill.org/index.php/gend…

So what is WPS, what is disarmament, and how do they relate to one another? Why should those who are working on women’s leadership care about curbing militarisation, and what does gender have to do with disarmament and arms control? Listen to our podcast⬇️
open.spotify.com/episode/6dgg8P…

Today, the UN Security Council will discuss sexual violence in conflict, with a focus on preventing #CRSV through demilitarization and gender-responsive arms control. This important topic responds to years of WILPF advocacy on centering disarmament and demilitarization in WPS.

📢 NEW PRESS RELEASE: States must place national bans and restrictions on use of explosive weapons in populated areas to reduce harm to civilians

Read here ➡️ bit.ly/49LuyML

#EWIPAOslo #StopBombingCivilians

🤖📣Yesterday, #ECOWAS states adopted the #Freetown Communiqué following the first-ever African conference on #AutonomousWeapons in Sierra Leone🇸🇱 Sierra Leone Embassy in Switzerland

➡️Read the Communiqué: awsfreetown.com/en-us/communiq…

Congratulations to #StopKillerRobots campaigners for their work! 👏

Global military spending surges amid war, rising tensions and insecurity. New SIPRI data on global #MilitarySpending out now.

Press Release ➡️ bit.ly/3w5FW8p
Fact Sheet ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/BQGA2…

#GDAMS2024

3/ Read Ray Acheson and Laura Varella Reaching Critical Will 'Briefing Paper for States that have Endorsed the Political Declaration on the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas Regarding Israel’s Use of Explosive Weapons in Gaza'
bit.ly/3vXZUSG

BREAKING: Billions of Pentagon dollars are shifting to Silicon Valley and Big Tech, according to our latest research. The top five contracts to major tech firms between 2019 and 2022 had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

As states and civil society convene for disarmament meetings in April, Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has gone on for six months. In this edition of our E-News, we highlight work towards stopping the arms trade, the use of explosive weapons, and more. 📰: reachingcriticalwill.org/news/newslette…