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the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency
and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC

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Photo: UNMAS, MINUSMA Mark International Day for Mine Awareness. Robots have been deployed for mine clearance by military authorities in many countries, but concerns are rising over regulation of autonomous weapons which use Artificial Intelligence. UN Photo/Marco Dormino

殺人ロボット規制を妨害する米国・ロシア

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20年に及んだ戦争の後、8月31日に米軍が最後の兵をアフガニスタンから撤退させた。ワシントンがこれに込めたメッセージは明確だ。今後の全ての紛争における「ブーツ・オン・ザ・グラウンド」(地上軍派遣)を米国は抑制するというものだ。もっとも、現在でもまだ、中東全域に4万人以上の米兵が展開している。

しかし、将来の波は、特に世界中のテロ集団に対する「影の戦争」で使用される「殺人ロボット」がもたらすかもしれない。そのほとんどがドローンや無人航空機(UAV)である。

米軍は8月29日、誤ってISIS-Kのアジトとされた場所に対して、ドローンからヘルファイアミサイル1発を撃ちこんだ。児童7人を含む10人の民間人が殺害された。米国防総省は「悲劇的な過ち」と述べたが、この民間人殺害に関して処罰を受けた者はいない。

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Sustainable Development Observer Issue 4 Focuses on Global Health Crisis

By Kalinga Seneviratne

SYDNEY (IDN) — This fourth issue of Sustainable Development Observer focuses on the global health crisis that has been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and pharmaceutical industry’s greed—at the cost of peoples’ health. While the world’s media has gone berserk about a new “Omicron” variant of the COVID virus, the World Trade Organisation has quietly postponed a ministerial conference that had as its main agenda item, an Indian and South African initiative supported by over 100 countries to waive patents on COVID vaccines and other medical testing systems and equipment.

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UN Report Concerned About Hunger and Food Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Jaya Ramachandran

ROME (IDN) — The rise in hunger and food insecurity levels that have been occurring in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2015, were exacerbated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The region is now even further off-track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 2.1 to end hunger and achieve food security, according to the latest Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition. (P27) JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH

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