by Matilda Byrne | 17 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal
By Matilda Byrne Fully autonomous weapons, those which select and engage targets in absence of human control, give rise to moral, ethical, legal and security threats. The efforts to introduce a ban on these ‘killer robots,’ also referred to as ‘lethal autonomous...
by Rhett Kleine | 17 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal
While scrolling one of my multiple news feeds, often time in bed escaping the morning, I find myself reading about stories all over the world: in Sheik Jarrah, the fight against COVID, Myanmar, or the US. I then often find myself lamenting the three month period we...
by SafeGround | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal
By Kasun Ubayasiri July 19 2013: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces no asylum seeker arriving by boat will be settled in Australia. March 29, 2017: 79 boats arrived in Australia between July 19, 2013, and July 27, 2014. Of the individuals on board, 1,596 were...
by SafeGround | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal
By Siddhant Vashistha Amidst governmental failure and mismanagement in the current second wave of Covid-19, and beyond the lack of oxygen, hospital beds and drug shortages, India has a bigger problem – vaccination. India has vaccinated only 8% of its population. The...
by SafeGround | 16 Jun 2021 | MiddleGround Journal
Text by Abby Seiff – Photography by Nicolas Axelrod Feb. 17, 2020 – Kampong Luang, Cambodia. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom One morning, I pulled up a satellite map of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake on my computer and clicked my way around it. The water was a...
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