Improving Supply Chain Accountability for Arms Exports

What is the programme?

Business and Human Rights Compliance, the Center for Advanced Defense Studies and the Asser Instituut in partnership with Guatemalan civil society organizations Diálogos and Fundación Myrna Mack run a joint project on enabling civil society in Guatemala to address the misuse, diversion and abuse of firearms exports.

What happened?

An international conference on Improving Supply Chain Accountability for Arms Exports was held in person on May 13 and 14, 2024 at the Asser Institute for International and European Law in The Hague. Over the course of the conference, 90 individuals participated, including representatives of civil society organizations, government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, and academia.

The conference comprised one high-level policy roundtable and three substantive panels featuring eleven panelists and four moderators, from ten countries: Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States.