Verity Coyle
Deputy Director, Arms in the Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division, Human Right Watch (website)
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Deputy Director, Arms in the Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division, Human Right Watch (website)
X: @veritycoyle Bluesky: @verityc
emails: coylev [at] hrw [dot] org
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) | killer robots | gender | export control, transfer policy and laws
Verity Coyle is the deputy director for Arms in the Crisis, Conflict and Arms division, at Human Rights Watch. She oversees work on humanitarian disarmament, from landmines and cluster munitions to incendiary weapons, explosive weapons in populated areas, and autonomous weapons systems (or killer robots).
Coyle has over 20 years of experience working on and leading major global campaigns, including related to the Arms Trade Treaty, the Stop Killer Robots campaign to establish a treaty on autonomous weapons systems, and the Torture Free Trade initiative. She has worked extensively at the United Nations, advocating and influencing within many multilateral spaces.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Coyle was the senior advisor on military, policing, and security at Amnesty International. She previously worked with the Stimson Center, Control Arms, and Oxfam International. She received her bachelor’s in media production from the University of Lincoln.
Recent publications:
Verity Coyle is the deputy director for Arms in the Crisis, Conflict and Arms division, at Human Rights Watch. She oversees work on humanitarian disarmament, from landmines and cluster munitions to incendiary weapons, explosive weapons in populated areas, and autonomous weapons systems (or killer robots).
Coyle has over 20 years of experience working on and leading major global campaigns, including related to the Arms Trade Treaty, the Stop Killer Robots campaign to establish a treaty on autonomous weapons systems, and the Torture Free Trade initiative. She has worked extensively at the United Nations, advocating and influencing within many multilateral spaces.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Coyle was the senior advisor on military, policing, and security at Amnesty International. She previously worked with the Stimson Center, Control Arms, and Oxfam International. She received her bachelor’s in media production from the University of Lincoln.
Recent publications:
- "The Arms Trade Treaty’s Gender-Based Violence Risk Assessment: A Questionnaire for Information Sources," Stimson and International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, March 23, 2021.*
- "Multilateralism in the Era of COVID 19," Stimson Center, April 8, 2020.
- "ATT Monitor Report 2019," Control Arms Secretariat, August 26, 2019.*
- "ATT Monitor Annual Report 2018," Control Arms, August 2018.*
- "How to use the Arms Trade Treaty to address Gender-Based Violence," Control Arms, August 2018.*