United Nations criticized for growing use of private security firms
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
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