A/HRC/15/25 90. The Working Group would like to emphasize its utmost concern at the impact of the activities of PMSCs on the enjoyment of human rights, in particular when operating in conflict, post-conflict or low-intensity armed situations and notes that PMSCs and their personnel are rarely held accountable for violations of human rights. 91. The aim of a proposed new binding legal instrument is not the outright banning of PMSCs but the establishment of minimum international standards for States parties to regulate the activities of PMSCs and their personnel. 92. The Working Group believes that the Human Rights Council would constitute the best forum for the development of a new international instrument for the regulation, oversight and monitoring of PMSCs, to address the human rights impact of the activities of PMSCs. 93. It encourages Member States to carefully consider the present draft proposal for a possible new international legal instrument regulating PMSCs and recommends that the Human Rights Council establish an intergovernmental open-ended Working Group with the task of developing a new convention taking into account the initial work done by the Working Group on the use of mercenaries. 18 GE.10-15155