Almost halfway through its three-year mandate the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems met in Geneva

On 26–30 August, the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), which operates under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), met in Geneva for its second session of the year. The Group is almost halfway through its three-year mandate, which must produce “a set of elements of an instrument” to address LAWS. However, discussions this week showed that the Group couldn’t be further away from agreeing to a meaningful outcome that will protect the world from autonomous weapons. 

Find statements, documents, and more on the Reaching Critical Will website. Also see our reporting and analysis from the conferece in the CCW Report.