A/HRC/29/37 25. On 15 September 2014, he gave a lecture on autonomous weapons systems at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advances Studies, in South Africa. 26. On 18 and 19 September 2014, he participated in the World Health Organization and University of Cambridge Global Violence Reduction Conference 2014, at King’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 27. On 22 September 2014, he participated in a panel discussion entitled “Ensuring the use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones in counter-terrorism and military operations in accordance with international law, including international human rights and humanitarian law”, organized by the Human Rights Council, in Geneva. 28. On 25 September 2014, he delivered a speech at the parliamentarian seminar on drones, organized by the Parliament of Norway, in Oslo. 29. From 29 September to 3 October 2014, the Special Rapporteur participated in the 21st annual meeting of the special procedures mandate holders, in Geneva. 30. On 8 and 9 October 2014, he participated in the international workshop on enhancing cooperation between United Nations and regional mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights, organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in Geneva. 31. On 20 October 2014, he participated in a discussion at the University of Columbia, New York, that was co-sponsored by Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, Rightlink, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration of the School of International and Public Affairs and the Human Rights Law Review. 32. On 10 and 11 November 2014, he participated in the third Jakarta Human Rights Dialogue, on the right to life and a moratorium on the death penalty in the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), organized by OHCHR, the European Union and the Indonesian representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, in Jakarta. 33. On 10 December 2014, he spoke at the launch of The War Report 2013: Armed Conflicts and their Consequences, organized by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, in Geneva. 34. On 6 February 2015, he spoke at the ninth meeting of the Security Forum, entitled “From drones to killer robots”, organized by Webster University in collaboration with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, in Geneva. II. Use of information and communications technologies to secure the right to life A. Background2 35. Given that many of the norms of international law concerning the right to life have broadly been settled, the work relating to protecting this right often concerns disputed facts 2 The Special Rapporteur thanks the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge, in particular Ella McPherson and Thomas Probert, for their valuable research support. As part of the research, descriptions of many of the applications and projects discussed have been collated and are available from http://ictandhr.tumblr.com/. 5