Ideas on the International Minimum Standard for the Privatization, Export, and Import of Armed Coercion

Abstract

As has already been mentioned, the Working Group on Mercenaries currently has a mandate from the UN Human Rights Council to study the necessity of adopting international regulation on new forms of mercenarism. In similar vein, the UN Human Rights Council has also set up an intergovernmental working group with a mandate to study the same proposition. The debate on conventional regulation on this matter has therefore been initiated by the states themselves.