Use+of+mercenaries+as+a+means+of+violating+human+rights


 * Issue 2--** **Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights**

"Mercenaries do not, in and of themselves, actively go out and violate human rights or impede the exercise of peoples to their own self-determination. It is the governments that hire them that ask them to carry out such tasks."
 * Main Points:**

The definitions of mercenaries are not/ clearly defined but their actions and their violating human rights spells out the need for stronger national and international actions.

The United Nations has already passed UN Resolution 44/34, in the 1990's at the 72nd plenary meeting, which dealt with the use, financing and training of mercenaries.
 * International Community Has already done:**

Colombia is very much against using mercenaries and the resulting human rights violations however holds the governments whom hire the mercenaries as responsible.
 * Country's point of view:**

For mercenaries to be stopped, their bases must be closed, their lines of communications cut, and their actions punished. All nations need to be a part of this activity; any nation that harbours mercenaries defeats the activity of the others
 * Solutions:**