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The Global Policy Forum, a non-profit organization that monitors the United Nations published a report criticizing the UN's growing use of private military and security companies. The Global Policy Forum said the UN's increasing use of these companies is "dangerous," may increase rather than reduce threats and attacks on U.N. buildings and personnel, and suggests a system that is "unaccountable and out of control." (...)

The article:
http://business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1013658

More about:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/24/can-un-help-itself-underwriting-human-rights-abuses

http://www.unimondo.org/Notizie/Mercenari-in-zone-di-guerra-stop-al-regolamento-ONU-136698

The Meeting:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGMilitary/Pages/OEIWGMilitarySession2.aspx

Past...present:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3795:united-nations-alarming-rise-in-mercenary-activities-calls-for-attention&catid=46:diritti-umani&Itemid=105

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Da leggere:

http://www.francoangeli.it/Ricerca/Scheda_libro.aspx?ID=11342&Tipo=Libro&titolo=Il+mestiere+della+guerra.+Dai+mercenari+ai+manager+della+sicurezza