It is interesting to note that in the resolution8 creating the the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, the UN Commission on Human Rights is "convinced that notwithstanding the way in which mercenaries or mercenary-related activities are used or the form they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, they are a threat to peace, security and the self-determination of peoples and an obstacle to the enjoyment of human rights by peoples". The Commission requests the Working Group to take into consideration the fact that mercenary activities continue in many parts of the world and...

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