Cannelle Lavite,
Chloé Bailey
Fachartikel
2026
Businesses contributing to the arms trade supply chain have distinct responsibilities. The recent UN independent experts’ call to end arms transfers to Israel, for instance, emphasises that companies ‘should also end transfers, even if they are executed under existing export licenses’—that is, irrespective of whether the licensing state has undertaken to review and suspend the license. Similar dilemmas around the regulation of the arms trade have surfaced in the case of Yemen, where several EU- and US-made arms had been used in potential violations of international humanitarian law.
