1. Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
... international human rights law, the people's right to self determination is enshrined in article 1 common to the two International Covenants on Human Rights of 1966: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This article stipulates that by virtue of the right that all peoples have to self-determination "they freely determine ... Convention, does not foresee a universal jurisdiction. It limits itself to the countries of the African continent. As of November 2007, twenty-seven out of the 53 African States...
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