The New York-based Global Policy Forum (GPF) said in a research report on Tuesday that Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) committed “serious human rights abuses, killed or injured innocent civilians, engaged in financial malfeasance and committed many other breaches of the law.”
The full report is entitled “Dangerous Partnership: Private Military Security Companies and the UN.”
“In the absence of guidelines and clear responsibility for security outsourcing, the UN has hired companies well-known for their misconduct, violence and financial irregularities — and hired them repeatedly,” the report said.
“The bigger, well-established companies are often headquartered in places like London, Stockholm and Washington D.C., but there are thousands of small, locally-owned firms based in cities worldwide, including Kabul and Kinshasa, Bogota and Baghdad,” the report said.
PMSCs have also come under fire by Amnesty International for various human rights violations, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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