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 108a Right of peoples to self-determination, published in 1994.

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?

14 subjects

Africa Aggression Apartheid Human Rights Violations Humanitarian Assistance Intervention Mercenaries Military Occupation National Liberation Movements Racial Discrimination Self-Determination of Peoples Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications South Africa Treaties

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex.

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights; 2/

A/48/385.

Resolution 44/34, annex.

Condemns the continued recruitment, financing, training, assembly, transit and use of mercenaries, as well as all other forms of support to mercenaries, for the purpose of destabilizing and overthrowing the Governments of African States and other developing States and fighting against the national liberation movements of peoples struggling for the exercise of their right to self-determination;

Reaffirms that the use of mercenaries and their recruitment, financing and training are offences of grave concern to all States and violate the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations;

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

Urges all States to take the necessary steps and to exercise the utmost vigilance against the menace posed by the activities of mercenaries and to ensure, by both administrative and legislative measures, that their territory 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 for the planning of 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 or occupation;

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

Reaffirms that to use channels of humanitarian and other assistance to finance, train and arm mercenaries is inadmissible;

Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider taking early action to sign or to ratify the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries; 3/

Requests the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat to organize, within the framework of its existing resources, working meetings to analyse the philosophical, political and legal aspects of this question, in the light of the recommendations contained in the report of the Special Rapporteur;

Requests the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights to report to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session on the use of mercenaries, especially in view of the additional elements highlighted in his report.

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