Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination A/RES/74/138 16. Requests the Working Group on the use of mercenaries to continue the work carried out by the previous mandate holders with respect to the strengthening of the international legal framework for the prevention and sanction of the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries, taking into account the proposal for a new legal definition of a mercenary drafted by the Special Rapporteur on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination in his report submitted to the Commission on Human Rights a t its sixtieth session 7 and the evolving phenomenon of mercenaries and its related forms; 17. Also requests the Working Group on the use of mercenaries to continue to study and identify sources and causes, emerging issues, manifestations and trends regarding mercenaries or mercenary-related activities and private military and security companies and their impact on human rights, particularly on the right of peoples to self-determination; 18. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for H uman Rights, as a matter of priority, to publicize the adverse effects of the activities of mercenaries on the right of peoples to self-determination and, when requested and where necessary, to render advisory services to States that are affected by those activities; 19. Recommends that all Member States, including those confronted with the phenomenon of private military and security companies, as contracting States, States of operations, home States or States whose nationals are employed to work for a private military and security company, contribute to the work of the open -ended intergovernmental working group, taking into account the initial work done by the Working Group on the use of mercenaries; 20. Urges all States to cooperate fully with the Working Group on the use of mercenaries in the fulfilment of its mandate; 21. Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide the Working Group on the use of mercenaries with all the assistance and support necessary for the fulfilment of its mandate, both professional and financial, including through the promotion of cooperation between the Working Group and other components of the United Nations system that deal with countering mercenary-related activities, in order to meet the demands of its current and future activities; 22. Requests the Working Group on the use of mercenaries to consult States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations on the implementation of the present resolution and to report, with specific recommendations, to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session its findings on the use of mercenaries to undermine the enjoyment of all human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination; 23. Decides to consider the question of the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination at its seventy-fifth session under the item entitled “Right of peoples to self-determination”. 50th plenary meeting 18 December 2019 __________________ 7 4/4 See E/CN.4/2004/15, para. 47. 19-22237