21/40 Report of 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

GE.12-14096

Human Rights Council Twenty-first session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Report of 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

Note by the secretariat

1. The secretariat informs the Human Rights Council by the present note that the

second session of 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 has

been postponed to 13 to 17 August 2012.

2. Given the change of dates, the working group will submit the report on its second

session to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session.