Showing posts with label Kenneth Roth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenneth Roth. Show all posts
Saturday, October 3, 2026

AI [artificial intelligence] weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies. Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions

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  AI (artificial intelligence)  in The Guardian ‘When AI is used for targeting, it brings a similar feigned omniscience to killing.’ Photog...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Why does the US want to ‘dismantle’ the international criminal court? Marco Rubio has offered nonsensical rationale in attacking the court. The Trump administration’s real goal is impunity

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‘What worries Trump officials most is the prospect that territorial jurisdiction could be used to prosecute them .’ Photograph: Graeme Sloa...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Paperback of the week: Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth -Roth spent three decades as head of Human Rights Watch. His record of past victories is also a warning for the future

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Roth notes the struggle for human rights is “incessant”; there is no sign that China and others will stop their abuses anytime soon"...
Friday, August 1, 2025

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths. -> The dire humanitarian situation is a direct result of Israel’s use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war—a war crime—as well as Israel’s continued intentional deprivation of aid and basic services, which amounts to the crime against humanity of extermination, and acts of genocide. -> States should press Israeli authorities to immediately stop using lethal force as crowd control against Palestinian civilians, lift Israel’s unlawful sweeping restrictions on the entry of aid, and for the United States and Israel to suspend this flawed distribution system.

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  Kenneth Roth @KenRoth It is a war crime -- part of its genocide -- for Israel to starve Palestinian civilians in Gaza. It is also a war cr...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

"Gaza in all likelihood would be only a first step. If such ethnic cleansing ever became acceptable, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem would surely follow. Even the so-called Arab population of Israel..." Kenneth Roth

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Trump’s grotesque Gaza proposal is appalling on every level Kenneth Roth   Trump’s proposal to expel all 2 million or more Palestinians fr...