Use of Mercenaries as a Means to Violate Human Rights and to Impede the Exercise of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 91 Importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination and of the speedy granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples for the effective guarantee and observance of human rights, published in 1988.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1987–1995

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/49/150

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1995	A/RES/49/150	Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination	603	51%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/92	Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination	860	—
1993	A/RES/47/84	Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination	—	—
1992	A/RES/46/89	Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination	—	—
1991	A/RES/45/132	Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Central America Human Rights Violations Humanitarian Assistance Mercenaries National Liberation Movements Self-Determination of Peoples Southern Africa

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Condemns the increased recruitment, financing, training, assembly, transit and use of mercenaries, as well as ali other forms of support to mercenaries for the purpose of destabilizing and overthrowing the Governments of southern Africa and Central America and of other developing States and fighting against the national Jiberation movements of peoples struggling for the exercise of their right to self-determination:

Strongly condemns the racist régime ofSouth Africa for its increasing use of groups of armed mercenaries against national liberation movements and for the destabilization of the Governments of southern African States;

Denounces any State that persists in the recruitment, or permits or tolerates the recruitment, of mercenaries and provides facilities to them for launching armed aggression against other States;

Calls upon all States to exercise the utmost vigilance against the menace posed by the activities of mercenaries

and to ensure, by both administrative and legislative measures, that the territory of those States and other territories under their control, as well as their nationals, are not used for the recruitment, assembly, financing, training and transit of mercenaries, or the planning of such activities designed to destabilize or overthrow the Government of any State and to fight the national liberation movements struggling against racism, apartheid, colonial domination and foreign intervention and occupation for their independence, territorial integrity and national unity;

Urges all States to take the necessary measures under their respective domestic laws to prohibit the recruitment, financing, training and transit of mercenaries on their territory;

Calls upon all States to extend humanitarian assistance to victims of situations resulting from the use of mercenaries, as well as from colonial or alíen domination or foreign occupation;

Considers it inadmissible to use channels of humanitarian and other assistance to finance, train and arm mercenaries;

Welcomes with satisfaction the appointment by the Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 1987/16 of 9 March 1987,26 of a special rapporteur to study the matter with a view to preparing a report for consideration by the Commission at its forty-fourth session and requests that the report be transmitted to the General Assembly at its forty-third session;

Decides to pay due attention to the matter at its forty-third session under the item entitled "lmportance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to selfdetermination and ofthe speedy granting ofindependence to colonial countries and peoples for the effective guarantee and observance of human rights".

VI. 75 Resolution 2625 (XXV), armex.

7b See A/_,2/310. annex 11

77 E/CN.4/Sub.2/ 1987 /26.

78 See E/CN.4/1984/3-E/CN.4/Sub.2/1983/43 and Corr.l and 2, cha.p. XXI, sect. A.

7 See E/CN.4/1988/.17-E/CN.4/Suh.2/1987/42 and Corr. l, chap. 1, Sl'CI. B.

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