@article{647828,
      note = {Includes bibliographical references.},
      url = {http://digitallibrary.un.org/record/647828},
      title = {Report of the Working Group on on the Use of Mercenaries  as a Means of Violating Human Rights and Impeding the  Exercise of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination},
      publisher = {UN,},
      abstract = {Presents an overview of the Working Group's activities  during 2008; envisioned future activities, notably a  process of regional consultations with States, to discuss  the fundamental question of the role of the State as a  holder of the monopoly of the use of force; recommends the  elaboration and adoption of a new international convention  on the regulation of private military and security  companies, and an accompanying model law; proposes basic  principles for the regulation of private military and  security companies and recommends the establishment of an  intersessional intergovernmental working group to prepare  such a convention; addresses the status of the  International Convention against the Recruitment, Use,  Financing and Training of Mercenaries.},
      recid = {647828},
      pages = {21 p.},
      address = {Geneva :. 2009-01-21},
      year = {2009},
      month = {Jan},
}