The Airspace Tribunal: Towards a New Human Right to Live without Physical or Psychological Threat from Above, Conference presentation at Imaginations of Autonomy – On Humans, AI- Based Weapon Systems and Responsibility at Machine Speed

Airspace and outer space are being rapidly transformed into an ever more complex and instrumentalised space of military and corporate exploitation, with increasingly pervasive and weaponised surveillance, inexorable expansion in aerial warfare, the deployment of unaccountable AI systems in lethal autonomous weapons, growing nuclear threat and unrelenting environmental degradation. Shona Illingworth will present on the Airspace Tribunal, an international people's tribunal established by Illingworth and human rights lawyer, Nick Grief in 2018 to develop a proposed new human right to live without physical or psychological threat from above. Challenging the traditional state centric view of how international law is created, the Airspace Tribunal has developed a compelling people focused dossier for the proposed new human right for submission to the UN, Council of Europe and other international bodies.