A/HRC/26/36 124. States must make their laws on the use of force publicly available. 125. States should not use emergency situations or terrorist threats as a pretext to erode the right to life by granting unchecked powers to use force to their law enforcement officials. 3. To regional bodies 126. The right to life should be a top priority for regional human rights systems. The emerging systems should link up with the United Nations and with other regional systems in this regard. 127. Regional bodies should engage with subregional bodies that have particular insight into the law and practice of States in the region, with a view to bringing about necessary law reform. Partnerships should be created to promote necessary reforms. 128. Regional bodies should monitor domestic laws on the use of force and accountability mechanisms, and consider adopting resolutions on strengthening these mechanisms. 4. To National Human Rights Institutions 129. NHRIs must make the protection of the right to life a matter of priority. In this context they must establish to what extent the domestic laws comply with international standards, and work towards law reform where necessary. 5. To NGOs and civil society 130. NGOs and civil society should engage with States on the applicable laws, and use all available entry points on the international front (such as shadow reports) to raise problems that are encountered with the status quo. 131. University-based and other researchers across societies should make the study and teaching of the rules on the use of force a priority. 6. To donors 132. The need to bring the domestic law in line with international standards should be a priority for those who provide financial and other assistance to States. III. Remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones and emerging autonomous weapons systems 133. The mandate has engaged with the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly on the issues raised by remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones over a number of years,67 and has recently also done so on autonomous weapons systems (or lethal autonomous robots (LARs)).68 While neither system has a human physically in the aircraft, in the case of armed drones, there are at least human operators on the ground taking decisions on who to target and when to release deadly force. Autonomous weapons systems have not yet been deployed, but if that were to happen, these weapons platforms, once 67 68 20 A/HRC/4/20/Add.1 pp.245-246, 359; A/HRC/11/2/Add.5 p. 32; A/HRC/14/24/Add.6, paras. 79–86; and A/HRC/20/22/Add.3 para. 81. See also General Assembly documents A/65/321; A/68/382 and Corr. 1; A/68/389. A/HRC/23/47 and A/65/321.