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.

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

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.

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 .

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

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.

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

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.

National legislation in the NIS was inconsistent with regard to mercenarism.

The CIS was in the process of drafting a model law on mercenarism, which would serve as a regional convention on mercenaries, although it would be structured and worded as a national law.

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43. Mr. Welch also said that a provision of South African law on the prohibition of mercenary activities was contained in section 121 A of the 1957 Defence Act (Act No. 44 of 1957) which prohibits the members of the South African Defence Force and reserve and auxiliary members of that Force from serving as mercenaries or providing services as mercenaries.

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.

The United Nations could tap into these to reinforce the international legal structures against mercenary activity Legislation on mercenaries should not just be punitive but must also attempt to close the loopholes in regard to how mercenaries acquire arms.

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.

37. Sagip Batang Manggagawa (Save the Child Worker) is a project concerned with the rescue of children who have been illegally employed.

Furthermore, no provision is usually made for the extradition of mercenaries, and this makes it easier for them to commit crimes with impunity.

That could provide a loophole for mercenaries.

B. International legislation and changes in mercenary activities

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

Who hired you for this?

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.

Article 16 deals with the responsibility of legal persons for crimes committed on their behalf and in their interest by any of their employees, with whom such legal persons shall be jointly and severally responsible in respect of financial penalties imposed.

The same approach should be taken in reviewing and updating the international legislation on mercenaries.

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.

III. MERCENARY ACTIVITIES

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

Mercenary like activities were also regulated under laws dealing with terrorist organizations.

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

C. Correspondence on mercenary activities against Cuba

The fact that a Government hires mercenaries, or specialized firms providing mercenary services, to defend it and to strengthen its position in an armed conflict must not be invoked to claim that such acts are legal.

An individual who really was, in practice, a mercenary could, for instance, invoke some of these flawed legal criteria to avoid being characterized as such.

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.

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They hired us.

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,

To counter mercenarism on the continent, a combination of international, regional and national legislation is required which specifically target mercenarism.

In such cases, even through the nationals were hired and paid, international law as it now stands would not allow the act to be defined as mercenary.

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Given the legal gaps and inadequacies which allow the existence of mercenaries whose activities could be passed off as normal, it is recommended that the Commission should propose that the Member States of the United Nations should consider adopting legislation to prohibit mercenary activity and the use of the national territory for such unlawful acts.

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

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,