To remain in our employ.

Resort to a range of offences for which mercenaries could be held liable under criminal law codes pointed to the absence of specific legal measures on mercenaries.

C. Terrorism and mercenary activities

At the international level, efforts should be made to solve technical and legislative problems relating to mercenaries, starting with the limitations of the definition of mercenary .

This is inevitable, since the material connection between the activities of mercenaries and their involvement in terrorist acts is amply demonstrated by the many cases of terrorist attacks in which it was found that the act was perpetrated by one or more mercenaries hired to commit the crime.

Here too, the intent to employ mercenaries or to turn an individual into a mercenary is obvious.

(c) To monitor mercenaries and mercenary related activities in all their forms and manifestations in different parts of the world

In this context, mercenaries, whose activities were linked to apartheid, are no longer present.

(a) The regulation of relations between workmen and employers or between workmen and workmen or between employers and employers or

It is precisely the existence of loopholes and legal ambiguities that has facilitated the use of mercenaries and of companies engaged in mercenary activities, without any effective legal action being taken against those who hire mercenaries or against mercenaries themselves.

And empowerment through employment reducing stigma.

The characteristics of the new mercenarism which was prevalent in Africa included the interrelation of traditional mercenary activity with big business, often involved in the extraction of valuable natural resources (e.g. in Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea).

In some instances, there had been a relationship between the company and the individual claimant (for example, an employment relationship), but the businesses claimed were separate and distinct.

117. Because mercenary activities and the conduct of the mercenary himself can seriously impair the enjoyment of human rights, the self determination of peoples, the stability of constitutionally established Governments and international peace and security, mercenary activities and the mercenary career must be clearly and unequivocally banned.

Who hired you for this?

With particular regard to Afghanistan, mercenaries fell into several categories, including those working for private companies, those in the pay of warlords, and those involved in drug trafficking in the highly lucrative illegal poppy cultivation market.

That indicated a need to link mercenary activity with other crimes under international law.

Legislation on mercenaries should not just be punitive, but must also attempt to close the loopholes in regard to how mercenaries acquire arms.

III. MERCENARY ACTIVITIES

(a) Information on the possible existence of any recent mercenary activities (recruitment, financing, training, assembly, transit or use of mercenaries)

There is a need to look at how emerging legislation in Africa, e.g. on terrorism, can relate to combating mercenarism.

Convinced that, notwithstanding the way in which they are used or the form that they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, mercenaries or mercenary related activities are a threat to peace, security and the self determination of peoples and an obstacle to the enjoyment of human rights by peoples,

C. Correspondence on mercenary activities against Cuba

Such nationals would not, strictly speaking, be considered mercenaries, but the intention of those recruiting them to use them as mercenaries is objectively undeniable, as is the willingness of such nationals to accept a relationship that turns them into mercenaries.

The definition identified a mercenary, but did not refer to companies which were mercenary in nature.

A mercenary can, without ceasing to be a mercenary, also become a terrorist.

You doin' the hiring'?

They hired us.

1. Takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self determinationSee A 51 392. concerning the use of mercenaries and mercenary related activities to topple sovereign Governments and to violate the human rights of peoples and impede the exercise of self determination despite resolution 50 138

1. Takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self determination concerning the use of mercenaries and mercenary related activities to topple sovereign Governments and to violate the human rights of peoples and impede the exercise of self determination despite resolution 51 83 See A 52 495.

Convinced that, notwithstanding the way in which they are used or the form that they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, mercenaries or mercenary related activities are a threat to peace, security and the self determination of peoples and an obstacle to the enjoyment of human rights by peoples,

Convinced that, notwithstanding the way in which they are used or the form that they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, mercenaries or mercenary related activities are a threat to peace, security and the self determination of peoples and an obstacle to the enjoyment of all human rights by peoples,

Convinced that, notwithstanding the way in which they are used or the form that they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, mercenaries or mercenary related activities are a threat to peace, security and the self determination of peoples and an obstacle to the enjoyment of all human rights by peoples,

Alarmed and concerned about the danger which the activities of mercenaries constitute to peace and security in developing countries, particularly in Africa and in small States, where democratically elected Governments have been overthrown by mercenaries or through mercenary international criminal activities,

Alarmed and concerned about the danger which the activities of mercenaries constitute to peace and security in developing countries, in particular in Africa and in small States, where democratically elected Governments have been overthrown by mercenaries or through mercenary international criminal activities,

We also prosecute employers who are found to have acted in breach of the Employment Ordinance.

Why should I hire Tom?

but we hire men to do it for us.

I guess they weren't hired.

The report and the proposed legal definition of a mercenary should encapsulate the general problem of mercenarism as well as its more specific regional aspects.

With respect to mercenary activities, Malaysia was very concerned with the statement, if it was true, that States were patronizing the services of mercenaries for illegitimate purposes.

The Act defined mercenary activity as direct participation as a combatant in armed conflict for private gain and drew a distinction between mercenary activity and the legitimate provision of military assistance.

To harmonise the interests of owners, employees and the authorities, a system of trilateral social partnership has been created on the basis of the law on social partnership in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Referring only to mercenary individuals allowed a mercenary company to operate without liability.

Any legislation on mercenaries must incorporate more of the progressive features of international conventions, and should seek to improve the definition of a mercenary as it stands in article 1 of the 1989 Convention.