Ban Killer Drones

Ban Killer Drones is a lead organizer of the international Weaponized Drone Ban Treaty Campaign, which is seeking organizational endorsements of its statement calling upon the United Nations General Assembly to enact : 1) a declaration banning weaponized drones; and 2) a treaty to ban weaponized drones.

Launched in June at the International Peace Bureau Summit for Peace in Ukraine in Vienna, the Campaign continues to galvanize support. Our goal is to reach 300 endorsers and then present the UN General Assembly with the demand that a treaty be enacted banning killer drones.

Drone warfare by state and nonstate actors has led to the extrajudicial murder, maiming and/or forced displacement of millions of people across the globe, primarily in the Global South. Also, there is the looming threat that autonomous drones can be loaded with depleted uranium and launched at nuclear power plants and other facilities with devastating consequences. This horrific and readily accessible weapon of death and destruction must be declared illegal by the United Nations.

We demand a total ban on placing weapons of any kind on drones. Regulating when and where drone killing can occur and permitting drone killing if humans are involved in control still leaves us with drone killing and terror. Humanity cannot and will not tolerate drone killing of any kind. We are fighting for the world that we must have.