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individuals working for them. Such regulation should include defining
minimum requirements for transparency and accountability of firms, screening
and vetting of personnel, and establish a monitoring system including
parliamentary oversight. States should impose a specific ban on PMSCs
intervening in internal or international armed conflicts or actions aiming at
destabilizing constitutional regimes;
− The Working Group recommends human rights components in education and
training programmes to be offered to the staff of PMSCs, including on
international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and
United Nations standards on the use of force;
− The Working Group recommends that, in order to fulfil the complex mandate
and challenges given to it under Commission resolution 2005/2 and assumed by
the Human Rights Council, as well as by General Assembly resolution 61/151, it
be allowed to hold three sessions per year, two in Geneva and one in New York.
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