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1 Oct 2010

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United Nations Human Rights Council

Human Rights Council establishes Working Group on activities of Private Security Companies, renews mandates on Sudan and Somalia

The Human Rights Council...decided to establish an intergovernmental open-ended Working Group with the mandate to elaborate a legally binding instrument on the regulation, monitoring and oversight of the impact of the activities of private military and security companies on the enjoyment of human rights, on the basis of the principles, main elements and the draft text for a possible convention proposed by the United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the rights of peoples to self-determination…