09 Jun 2026
Enabling Civil Society Efforts to Address the Misuse, Diversion, and Abuse of Arms Exports
This collaborative project aims to combat the diversion and misuse of firearms transfers to Guatemala through a multifaceted approach. By leveraging expertise from local partners, the project involves rigorous supply chain investigations to address the negligent export of weapons, empowers Guatemalan civil society organizations (CSOs) to utilize policy and legal avenues to accountability, and champions greater restraint, transparency and human rights due diligence in small arms exports.
Our Services and Activities
- Empowering Guatemalan civil society, through a series of capacity-building trainings and materials, to better understand and tackle the issue of firearms transfers and its impacts on human rights in the country, including potential paths towards tracking, reporting and accountability.
- Awareness-raising with governments and industry - particularly in Europe - to better understand, acknowledge and prevent the misuse and diversion of their firearms exports to Latin America, including advocacy and policy inputs calling for robust human rights due diligence in firearms transfers.
Partners
Led by Global Rights Compliance (GRC), this collaborative partnership includes the Asser Institute, the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), and Guatemalan civil society organizations Diálogos and Fundación Myrna Mack.
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