1. Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
... of the law. Mercenary like terrorism has become an international crime6. If at the international and regional level there are specific provisions regarding mercenarism and a definition of what is a mercenary, there is no definition of, or references to these new non-state actors which are the ... 29 October 2001, after the twentieth instrument of ratification had been deposited with the UN Secretary-General. As of December 2007 the following 30 States were parties to the Convention: Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Georgia, Guinea, Italy...
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