Bolivia

Bolivia participated in one of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons informal meetings on autonomous weapons systems in 2015. At this meeting, Bolivia stated that the right to life should not be ‘delegated to a machine.’^[1]Stop Killer Robots (2015), Report on Activities – Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons  second informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems United Nations Geneva … Continue reading

Bolivia is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, which supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Bolivia has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument. At the Sixth Review Conference of the CCW in December 2021, the Non-Aligned Movement stated that ‘there is an urgent need to pursue a legally binding instrument under the Convention that will contain prohibitions and regulations for addressing the humanitarian and international security challenges posed by emerging technologies in the area of LAWS.’^[2]Statement by the Non-Aligned Movement, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, … Continue reading