A/HRC/RES/54/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 October 2023
54/11.
Mandate of the open-ended intergovernmental working group to
elaborate the content of an international regulatory framework on the
regulation, monitoring and oversight of the activities of private military
and security companies
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006 and Human Rights
Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Council, and 5/2, on the Code of
Conduct for Special Procedure Mandate Holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June
2007,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 15/26 of 1 October 2010,
establishing the open-ended intergovernmental working group to consider the possibility of
elaborating an international regulatory framework on the regulation, monitoring and
oversight of the activities of private military and security companies,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 36/11 of 28 September 2017
establishing a new mandate for the open-ended intergovernmental working group for a period
of three years, and its resolution 45/16 of 6 October 2020, in which the Council renewed the
mandate to elaborate the content of an international regulatory framework, without
prejudging the nature thereof, to protect human rights and ensure accountability for violations
and abuses relating to the activities of private military and security companies,
Noting that the working group held its first session from 20 to 23 May 2019 and its
second session from 26 to 29 April 2021 and duly reported to the Human Rights Council on
its outcomes,1
Noting also that the working group held its third session from 9 to 13 May 2022,2 at
which it introduced a revised zero draft instrument on an international regulatory framework
on the regulation, monitoring of and oversight over the activities of private military and
security companies,
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2
See A/HRC/42/36 and A/HRC/48/65.
See A/HRC/51/40.
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