The Working Group visited Peru, Fiji and Chile during 2007...The Working Group has increasingly received information from Governments, NGOs and individuals concerning situations involving...private military and security companies...An emerging trend in Latin America but also in other regions of the world indicates situations of private security companies protecting transnational extractive corporations whose employees are often involved in suppressing the legitimate social protest of communities and human rights...PMSCs are at present rarely held accountable by effective oversight mechanisms at parliamentary levels, whether in the States that contracts them or in the countries where they operate...The Working Group is concerned that private contractors perform military and quasi-military tasks in situations of conflict...Once performing security work in Iraq, many Chileans, Fijians, Hondurans and Peruvians have experienced contractual irregularities and poor working conditions, including excessive working hours, partial or full non-payment of salaries, ill-treatment and the neglect of basic needs such as access to medical services...[also refers to Neskovin, Blackwater, Global Guards, Triple Canopy, Defion, Your Solutions, DynCorp]