GENEVA (16 February 2023) – UN human rights experts* today expressed grave concern about reports that at least 10 boys, some as young as 12 years old were allegedly taken away from Camp Roj during the...

ATHENS (16 December 2022) - The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries and private military and security companies today welcomed Greece’s commitment to regulate the operations of private military...

NEW YORK (1 November 2022) –A growing reliance on private contractors to protect vessels, commercial shipping, offshore platforms, ports, and other maritime infrastructure has exposed human rights...

GENEVA (20 September 2022) – Human rights violations committed by mercenaries and private security companies create grave challenges for victims seeking justice and redress due to the particularity of...

In the present report, the Working Group on the use of mercenaries examines violations of human rights and humanitarian law perpetrated by mercenaries, mercenary related actors and private military and security companies.

In the present report, the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to selfdetermination examines violations of human rights and humanitarian law perpetrated by private military and security companies, mercenaries and related actors in the maritime context.

GENEVA (25 July 2022) – UN experts* today expressed frustration and grave concern following confirmation of the death of Australian teenager Yusuf Zahab in a North-East Syrian detention facility. The...

The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries is alarmed by the growing use of mercenaries and mercenary-related actors in armed conflicts around the world. “We are witnessing the ever-increasing...

GENEVA (17 January 2022) - Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights...

UN human rights experts* have expressed alarm at the rising rate of violence directed by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory. “Settler violence has always been...