Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries — call for inputs on mercenaries, PMSCs, and new technologies
Examines the intersection of private military and security companies with emerging technologies — autonomous weapons systems, AI-enabled surveillance, cyber operations, and data-driven targeting — arguing that technology procurement and deployment by PMSCs creates accountability gaps that neither IHL combatant status rules nor existing corporate human rights due diligence frameworks are designed to close. Proposes extraterritorial jurisdiction, supply-chain liability standards drawing on the NSO Group precedent, and binding HRDD obligations extending to technology subcontractors.
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