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Mary Wareham

Mary Wareham

Advocacy Director, Arms Division Follow @marywareham

Mary Wareham is advocacy director of the Arms Division, where she leads Human Rights Watch’s advocacy against particularly problematic weapons that pose a significant threat to civilians. She is also serving as the global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. From 2006 to 2008, Wareham served as advocacy director for Oxfam New Zealand, leading its efforts to secure an arms trade treaty and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Wareham was senior advocate for the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch from 1998 to 2006 and was responsible for global coordination of the Landmine Monitor research initiative, which verifies compliance and implementation of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. From 1996 to 1997, Wareham worked for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, assisting Jody Williams in coordinating the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize together with Williams. Wareham worked as a researcher for the New Zealand parliament from 1995 to 1996 after receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from Victoria University of Wellington.

 

Articles Authored

  • November 26, 2019 Background Briefing

    Landmine Stockpiles and Their Destruction

    Published in UNODA Occasional Paper: The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
  • November 20, 2019 Dispatches

    Ringing the Alarm on Killer Robots

  • May 1, 2019 Commentary

    New Zealand: Preventing Harm from Guns, Killer Robots

    Published in Radio New Zealand
  • February 14, 2019 Dispatches

    Deadly US Applications of Artificial Intelligence

  • September 5, 2018 Dispatches

    Support Grows for Killer Robots Ban

  • May 30, 2018 Commentary

    The Killer Robots Ban Is Coming. What Will Belgium Do?

  • March 14, 2018 Dispatches

    Sri Lanka Bans Cluster Munitions

  • March 7, 2018 Commentary

    Want To Worry About AI? Then Worry About This…

    Published in Robot Republic
  • January 22, 2018 Dispatches

    Palestine Joins Global Push to Eliminate Landmines

  • November 27, 2017 Dispatches

    Why No Sense of Urgency on ‘Killer Robots?’

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Other Writing

  • Disarmament work could be wasted
  • Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security
  • Disarm (a feature-length documentary film on landmines)

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