GAGV addresses dangerous gun policies and practices by bringing human rights actions and advocating for accountability and reforms in countries that prioritize firearms and gun industry profits over human health and safety.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
GAGV has testified before the IACHR, and submitted extensive written materials to advocate for accountability under human rights on weak U.S. laws that enable gun trafficking and violence.
Testimony of GAGV’s Jon Lowy, IACHR Haiti: Arm trafficking and its impact on human rights (Ex Officio) Hearing (November 18, 2025)
Respecting and Enforcing Human Rights in the Face of the Activities of Arms Manufacturing and Trading Firms in the Americas, Outline & Report (October 25, 2022)
United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
GAGV has submitted the attached report in response to the call for inputs by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) “on the impact of arms transfers, including the diversion of arms and unregulated or illicit arms transfers, on the enjoyment of human rights, with a focus on the role of access to information in preventing, mitigating and responding to the negative human rights impact thereof” (pursuant to HRC resolution 53/15), for use in an OHCHR report to be presented to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-sixth session (June 2024).
GAGV has requested the U.N. OHCHR to create a special procedure on civilian firearms, to investigate and take more dedicated action on gun policies that infringe on human rights.
GAGV has submitted an extensive report to the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights implications of civilian firearms policies.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Human rights and the regulation of civilian acquisition, possession and use of firearms, Report (January 31, 2023)
Learn more about the Connection Between Gun Violence and Human Rights here.