The United Nations Stephen O'Brien has reported repeated attempts to seek passage for their aid to the people in Syria.
Under-Secretary General O'Brien also reports all humanitarian efforts to safe guard children in delivering immunizations have stopped.
Along similar lines are the UN deliveries into Ukraine's Donetsk only after three months have been able to gain entrance to the region.
October 21, 2015
United Nations, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) (click here) began to deliver food to the non-government-controlled areas in the Ukrainian eastern city of Donetsk after three-month suspension, a UN spokesman said here Tuesday.
Two truck convoys, carrying enough food for nearly 16,000 people for one month, reached Donetsk in the past five days, Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, said at a daily news briefing here.
It is the first time that the UN humanitarian aid had reached these areas in three months.
"More convoys bringing food are being planned so that the total number of vulnerable people to receive assistance will be 20,000," he said.
"As another winter approaches, the humanitarian community is concerned about the needs of the most vulnerable people, especially those who had to flee their homes," Haq added....
There are reports Russia has been delivering aid to this region. The concern with Russian deliveries is the opportunity to import weapons to Donetsk with or without the knowledge of Russian leadership.
Moscow, November 9. /TASS/. Trucks of the Russian (click here) Emergencies Ministry carrying humanitarian cargo for Donbas have left their base near Moscow to head for southern Rostov region, where the 44th convoy for Donbas is being formed now, the ministry’s press service told TASS on Monday.
"This morning, from the ministry’s Noginsk (near Moscow) rescue center trucks left for the Rostov region, where they will become a part of another convoy with humanitarian aid for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," the press service said....
Killer Robots are viewed as a danger to humanity. In a recent hearing of the US Senate military appropriations committee US Senator John McCain stated to a member of the panel, "It looks as though the F35 will be that last manned aircraft."
November 12, 2015
By Hamaz Shaban
This summer, (click here) Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking tried to warn us about killer robots. They were joined by more than a thousand researchers in artificial intelligence and robotics pleading for a ban on autonomous weapons. In recent years, Musk has described the development of AI as “summoning the demon” and “potentially more dangerous than nukes,” with humans working as a “biological boot loader for digital super-intelligence.” Hawking told the BBC that “artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” But the rise of the machines and AI continues apace.
Ahead of a United Nations weapons convention in Geneva, Amnesty International is calling for a pre-emptive ban on the development and deployment of lethal robots. “These aren’t outside the realm of possibility,” Rasha Abdul Rahim, Amnesty’s advocate on arms control, told BuzzFeed News. “They are only one step away from being autonomous and this is why people, and more importantly governments, need to start taking this issue seriously.”
In an op-ed to coincide with the first day of the U.N. convention, Amnesty will argue that autonomous weapons present a frightening challenge to international and humanitarian law. Deploying weapons that can kill without meaningful human control, the group will say, will provoke a sprawling, dystopian arms race, presenting an affront to human dignity....
It is needless to say, when the USA armed services committee met none of the people mentioned above by Amnesty International was invited to make testimony to the members of the Senate committee.
Under-Secretary General O'Brien also reports all humanitarian efforts to safe guard children in delivering immunizations have stopped.
Along similar lines are the UN deliveries into Ukraine's Donetsk only after three months have been able to gain entrance to the region.
October 21, 2015
United Nations, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) (click here) began to deliver food to the non-government-controlled areas in the Ukrainian eastern city of Donetsk after three-month suspension, a UN spokesman said here Tuesday.
Two truck convoys, carrying enough food for nearly 16,000 people for one month, reached Donetsk in the past five days, Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, said at a daily news briefing here.
It is the first time that the UN humanitarian aid had reached these areas in three months.
"More convoys bringing food are being planned so that the total number of vulnerable people to receive assistance will be 20,000," he said.
"As another winter approaches, the humanitarian community is concerned about the needs of the most vulnerable people, especially those who had to flee their homes," Haq added....
There are reports Russia has been delivering aid to this region. The concern with Russian deliveries is the opportunity to import weapons to Donetsk with or without the knowledge of Russian leadership.
November 8, 2015
According to Russia’s Emergencies minister, the humanitarian situations in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions remain very complicated
Moscow, November 9. /TASS/. Trucks of the Russian (click here) Emergencies Ministry carrying humanitarian cargo for Donbas have left their base near Moscow to head for southern Rostov region, where the 44th convoy for Donbas is being formed now, the ministry’s press service told TASS on Monday.
"This morning, from the ministry’s Noginsk (near Moscow) rescue center trucks left for the Rostov region, where they will become a part of another convoy with humanitarian aid for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," the press service said....
Killer Robots are viewed as a danger to humanity. In a recent hearing of the US Senate military appropriations committee US Senator John McCain stated to a member of the panel, "It looks as though the F35 will be that last manned aircraft."
November 12, 2015
By Hamaz Shaban
This summer, (click here) Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking tried to warn us about killer robots. They were joined by more than a thousand researchers in artificial intelligence and robotics pleading for a ban on autonomous weapons. In recent years, Musk has described the development of AI as “summoning the demon” and “potentially more dangerous than nukes,” with humans working as a “biological boot loader for digital super-intelligence.” Hawking told the BBC that “artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” But the rise of the machines and AI continues apace.
Ahead of a United Nations weapons convention in Geneva, Amnesty International is calling for a pre-emptive ban on the development and deployment of lethal robots. “These aren’t outside the realm of possibility,” Rasha Abdul Rahim, Amnesty’s advocate on arms control, told BuzzFeed News. “They are only one step away from being autonomous and this is why people, and more importantly governments, need to start taking this issue seriously.”
In an op-ed to coincide with the first day of the U.N. convention, Amnesty will argue that autonomous weapons present a frightening challenge to international and humanitarian law. Deploying weapons that can kill without meaningful human control, the group will say, will provoke a sprawling, dystopian arms race, presenting an affront to human dignity....
It is needless to say, when the USA armed services committee met none of the people mentioned above by Amnesty International was invited to make testimony to the members of the Senate committee.
