Mary Wareham
Advocacy Director, Arms Division, Human Rights Watch (website)
twitter: @marywareham
email: wareham [at] hrw [dot] org
phone: +1-202-612-4321
Advocacy Director, Arms Division, Human Rights Watch (website)
twitter: @marywareham
email: wareham [at] hrw [dot] org
phone: +1-202-612-4321
killer robots | landmines and cluster munitions | CCW | explosive weapons in populated areas
Mary Wareham is advocacy director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch, where she leads advocacy against particularly problematic weapons that pose a significant threat to civilians. She is also serving as the global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and is a member of the editorial team of the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor.
From 2006 to 2008, Wareham served as advocacy director for Oxfam New Zealand, leading its efforts to secure an arms trade treaty and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Wareham was senior advocate for the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch from 1998 to 2006 and was responsible for global coordination of the Landmine Monitor research initiative, which verifies compliance and implementation of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. From 1996 to 1997, Wareham worked for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, assisting Jody Williams in coordinating the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize together with Williams. Wareham worked as a researcher for the New Zealand parliament from 1995 to 1996 after receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from Victoria University of Wellington.
Recent Publications:
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Mary Wareham is advocacy director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch, where she leads advocacy against particularly problematic weapons that pose a significant threat to civilians. She is also serving as the global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and is a member of the editorial team of the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor.
From 2006 to 2008, Wareham served as advocacy director for Oxfam New Zealand, leading its efforts to secure an arms trade treaty and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Wareham was senior advocate for the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch from 1998 to 2006 and was responsible for global coordination of the Landmine Monitor research initiative, which verifies compliance and implementation of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. From 1996 to 1997, Wareham worked for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, assisting Jody Williams in coordinating the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize together with Williams. Wareham worked as a researcher for the New Zealand parliament from 1995 to 1996 after receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from Victoria University of Wellington.
Recent Publications:
- "As Killer Robots Loom, Demands Grow to Keep Humans in Control of Use of Force," Human Rights Watch, January 15, 2019.
- "Killer robots are not a fantasy. The world must reject and block these weapons." USA Today, December 30, 2019.
- "Ringing the Alarm on Killer Robots," Human Rights Watch, November 20, 2019.
- "Incendiary Weapons Draw Widespread Condemnation," Human Rights Watch, November 18, 2019.
- "Landmine Monitor 2019," Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, November 21, 2019.*
- "Landmine stockpiles and their destruction," in The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: Twenty Years of Saving Lives and Preventing Indiscriminate Harm, UN Occasional Paper 34, November 2019.
- "Fully Autonomous Weapons," First Committee Monitor, vol. 17, no. 6, November 11, 2019.
- "Fully Autonomous Weapons," First Committee Monitor, October 14, 2019.
- "Be bolder to prevent a future of killer robots," CCW Report, vol. 7, no. 5, Reaching Critical Will, August 20, 2019.
- "Why NZ should ban killer robots," RadioNZ, May 1, 2019.
- “Time to Get Serious Before It’s Too Late,” (No. 1), CCW Report, Reaching Critical Will, Vol. 7, No. 1-5, March 2019.
- "The Killer Robots Ban Is Coming. What Will Belgium Do?," Human Rights Watch, May 30, 2018.
- "Time is running out," CCW Report, Reaching Critical Will, Vol. 6, No. 1, 9 April, 2018.
- "Sri Lanka Bans Cluster Munitions," Human Rights Watch, March 14, 2018.
- "Want to Worry About AI? Then Worry About This...," Human Rights Watch, March 7, 2018.
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