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Ahead of a special meeting of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee to take place in Mumbai and New Delhi at the end of the month, the Committee Chair, Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj of India, said the meeting “will serve to reflect on recent developments and the latest evidence-based research regarding the threats” posed by the use of new technologies for terrorist purposes. UNIFEED

The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched today in South Africa the drone hub to focus together with government and partners on building capacity with the aim of using drones for humanitarian purposes. UNTV CH

UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard called on States to “establish a transparent, multilateral and multi-stakeholder process for the development of robust standards and accountability mechanisms for the use and export of armed drones.” UNTV CH

A United Nations human rights official says the use of targeted killings with weapons like drone aircraft poses a growing challenge to the international rule of law. UNTV

Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston says that the use by the United States of unmanned drone aircraft in Pakistan and Afghanistan may be in violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. UNTV