Overview
- Focuses on human security and the impact of PMSCs on the protection of human rights
- Addresses soft-law initiatives in addition to existing international hard-law norms to regulate PMSCs
- Examines the possibility of introducing an international minimum standard to regulate the industry with a view to assisting policymakers, the Working Group on Mercenaries, civil society, etc
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Book Title: Public International Law and Human Rights Violations by Private Military and Security Companies
Editors: Helena Torroja
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66098-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66097-4Published: 13 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88175-1Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66098-1Published: 23 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 158
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Military and Defence Studies