This study emphasizes the continuing need integrate the gender perspective into the human rights of women by furthering efforts to decrease trafficking in persons and address the role of military demand in trafficking, including the role of both government-controlled and private military companies (PMCs)…PMCs present significant challenges to state and individual accountability for human rights violations. Solutions to the problem of private military contractors and trafficking have focused on three doctrines: democratic, contractual and internal institutional accountability. Contractual accountability encourages governments to use contracting principles to regulate and protect civilians from harm induced by private military contractors…