Mary Wareham
Arms Director, Human Rights Watch @hrw.org
- #Ukraine's so-called suspension of its operation of the vital 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel landmines puts civilians at risk, undermines fundamental humanitarian & legal norms, and is contrary to public international law - @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
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- "“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...
- 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇵🇱 Poland + 🇱🇹 Lithuania look set first to become the non-western countries to manufacture antipersonnel landmines in 27+ years www.reuters.com/business/aer... They are deliberately bringing back indiscriminate weapons that predominately harm civilians - @hrw.org hrw.org/news/2025/07...
- "The Cold War horror" making a comeback.... @nytimes.com explores the human suffering caused by antipersonnel landmines & negative consequences of Ukraine & 5 EU countries withdrawing from the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/world/europe/land-mines-treaty-russia-ukraine.html
- ⚠️ The means & methods of warfare are not unlimited... 🇫🇮 Finland can maintain its independence & territorial integrity without having to resort to producing & using 💥inherently indiscriminate weapons such as antipersonnel landmines @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
- Finnish lawmaker Veronkia Honkasalo calls political support for 🇫🇮 Finland's Mine Ban Treaty withdrawal "a repudiation of the new Finland that had been emerging from Russia’s shadow [as] a standard-bearer for human rights and the rule of law" www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe...
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- 🇺🇦 Ukraine has begun to withdraw from the Mine Ban Treaty. Because Ukraine is in the midst of a war, this is effectively a symbolic move to gain political cover while disregarding the core prohibitions on developing, producing, and using antipersonnel mines - @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
- Welcoming 🇹🇴 Tonga on board the 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel landmines #166 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
- 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
- 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
- “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
- 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.
- 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
- For more info, see this @hrw.org report detailing civilian harm from landmines & explosive remnants of war in Syria. We urge the transitional government to prepare to join the Mine Ban Treaty www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
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- Side event on civilian harm from antipersonnel landmines, starting now: us02web.zoom.us/j/8363598371...
- 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...
- 101 Nobel laureates in chemistry, economics, literature, medicine, peace, & physics issue a joint statement defending the international ban on antipersonnel landmines as 5 European countries 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇵🇱 move to withdraw from it: www.icblcmc.org/our-impact/n...
- 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...
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- Reposted by Mary WarehamWe’ve launched a new action with @avaaz.org targeting Canada and its new PM, @mark-carney.bsky.social. Canada once led the world in banning landmines. Now we need them to lead again. Click the link below, and send an message urging Canada to protect the Mine Ban Treaty! 👉 Act now!
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- 😱 📚 "A growing slew of AI-generated books [are] scamming would-be readers. They are released around the same time as a highly anticipated book and try to profit off the hype by getting people to download them accidentally" @thespinoff.bsky.social: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-...
- "Autonomous weapons systems raise moral, legal, and ethical concerns, but in Israel, debate over limits is nearly absent" - Aviv Bar Zohar: www.jpost.com/consumerism/...
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- ☎️ “Call your allies when they violate the rules of war and demand that they stop. The moment to pick up the phone is now” @icrc.org president told Security Council today www.icrc.org/en/statement...
- Tune in for today's virtual talk on @minefreeworld.bsky.social at 11:00am ET...
- Hear how governments and civil society worked hand-in-hand to ban landmines 🚫 and what lessons we can carry forward. 🗓️ May 22 | 3PM UTC 🎙️ Featuring Jill Sinclair & Mary Wareham 🗣️ Live translation in Spanish & French 🔗 Register: fossilfueltreaty.org/events
- Broad interest in the first #UNGA meeting on autonomous weapons systems & substantive engagement shows why states should commit to open negotiations on a new international treaty to deal with the dangers - @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Mary WarehamCongratulations to #Tonga on joining the life-saving #MineBanTreaty! This is the leadership needed today to achieve a mine free world! talanoaotonga.to/tonga-joins-... @minefreeworld.bsky.social @minemonitor.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Mary Wareham"#AutonomousWeapons systems would in addition create an accountability gap that will not only mean no one will be held responsible for a system’s unlawful action but will also eliminate an important tool for preventing harm." – @marywareham.bsky.social of @hrw.org on #Humanitarian concerns
- What’s it like to work for a machine? New @hrw report details how gig workers for 7 online platforms are assigned orders, supervised, paid & fired by algorithms - @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
- 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
- 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...
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines @minefreeworld.bsky.social statement on Lithuanian parliament vote to leave the Mine Ban Treaty www.icblcmc.org/our-impact/n...
- 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
- “There are mines everywhere - on trees, on the ground, inside the houses, and all around them...It drives you crazy” - mother of an 18 yr old injured by an antipersonnel landmine after returning home in #Syria - @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/card/2025/04... @hrw.org recs www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
- "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.”
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- New @hrw.org report looks at how autonomous weapons systems pose grave risks to fundamental human rights during war & peacetime: www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... Governments should negotiate a new international treaty to address the dangers.
- Last November, Pope Francis encouraged states to accede to & fully implement the @MineBanTreaty, warning that "any delay or setback will inevitably increase the human cost" of antipersonnel landmines www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/2024...
- 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
- South Sudan should abide by the widely-ratified #CCWUN Protocol prohibiting any use of air-dropped incendiary weapons in civilian areas www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... Adding South Sudan to next @hrw.org overview of new use www.hrw.org/report/2024/...
- 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
- #Syria's transitional government should prioritize the country's accession to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty & 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, destroy any remaining stocks - @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04... @minefreeworld.bsky.social @banclusterbombs.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mary Wareham#NewZealand at #CCM2025: Regrets #Lithuania’s withdrawal, warning it sets a concerning precedent that risks the Convention and IHL. Also deeply concerned that several states are considering leaving the Mine Ban Treaty. #BanClusterBombs #MineFreeWorld
- Reposted by Mary WarehamCMC Statement on Stockpile Destruction and Retention read by Mark Hiznay from @hrw.org at the 2025 Intersessional Meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Read more: bit.ly/3XRmGX8 #BanClusterBombs #2025CCM
- Reposted by Mary Wareham👉 "There’s nothing sophisticated about the #antipersonnelmines used in today’s #armedconflicts. They are indiscriminate weapons that predominately harm civilians, violate #humanrights, and have long-term societal impact." @marywareham.bsky.social @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
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- Devastating developments driven largely by two countries that have not banned antipersonnel landmines – the United States & Russia – are threatening international norms & long-standing working to eradicate these weapons, which predominately harm civilians - @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Mary Wareham"The Trump administration's deep cuts to foreign aid are now disrupting mine clearance operations," said @hrw.org's @marywareham.bsky.social ahead of International Day of Mine Action. By @brettwilkins.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
- Reposted by Mary Wareham"We just hope that states will use this rolling text as a basis to negotiate a treaty and that they will respect the deadline that they have set up themselves." – @nicolevanrooijen.bsky.social Our thoughts on this week's #CCWUN meetings on #AutonomousWeapons 👇 /1
- Reposted by Mary Wareham"See what your government is saying and see if you agree with what their view is on how we maintain human control over the use of force going forward into the future" – @marywareham.bsky.social @hrw.org 📹 Watch the final day of #CCWUN meetings here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11...
- Another feature by the @nytimes.com on use of armed drones in Ukraine www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Yet examining only from a military perspective without considering civilian harm, applicable law, proliferation concerns... Stand-by for @hrw.org report filling that gap...
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- Anduril secures millions in Pentagon contracts to build autonomous weapons as Ohio taxpayers foot the bill for a massive development project tied to the company’s expansion in Pickaway County sciotovalleyguardian.com/2025/02/25/a... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social
- This story forgets that Biden didn't care about humanitarian & human rights concerns when he authorized the transfer of internationally banned US-made antipersonnel landmines & cluster munitions last year, in violation of his own policy www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- Wondering how these provocative comments from unnamed US officials will translate into formal statements from the US delegation to next week's #CCWUN meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems www.yahoo.com/news/senior-...
