ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anna M. Puigderrajols Triadó

Anna M. Puigderrajols Triadó is an Advanced LLM graduate in European and International Human Rights Law from Leiden University. She is also a research intern at the T.M.C. Asser Institute for International and European Law in The Hague, where she works on the project “Enabling Civil Society Efforts to Address the Misuse, Diversion, and Abuse of Arms Exports in Latin America.”

POSTS BY Anna M. Puigderrajols Triadó

27 August 2024

Mainstreaming Gender in EU Arms Export Controls

With the third review of the EU Common Position on Exports of Military Technology and Equipment (EU Common Position) well underway, there is a critical opportunity to align this document with international instruments that incorporate gender considerations in the arms trade. In light of this, the post examines the increasing integration of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) within arms trade legal frameworks and calls for the EU Common Position to explicitly reference gender beyond its already present human rights considerations. Continue reading >>