A drone is not a cop – UN rights expert concerned about technologies that depersonalise the use of force - Office for Disarmament Affairs - Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD)

A drone is not a cop – UN rights expert concerned about technologies that depersonalise the use of force

22nd October 2014

NEW YORK (22 October 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, today raised concern about the increasing use of technologies that depersonalise the use of force –including armed drones– not only on the battlefield, but also in domestic law enforcement.

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