Volume 6 : 1
Human Rights Challenges for Multinational Corporations Working and Investing in Conflict Zones
Corporate Complicity under International Criminal Law: A Case for Applying the Rome Statute to Business Behaviour
Regulating the Private Security Industry: Connecting the Public and the Private through Transnational Private Regulation
Ethical Accounting For The Conduct Of Private Military And Security Companies
False Extraterritoriality? Municipal and Multinational Jurisdiction over Transnational Corporations
Sunlight for the Heart of Darkness: Conflict Minerals and the First Wave of SEC Regulation of Social Issues
Shining Brightly? Human Rights and the Responsible Sourcing of Diamond and Gold Jewellery from High Risk and Conflict-Affected Areas
Corporate Human Rights Violations and Private International Law. A Facilitating Role for PIL or PIL as a Complicating Factor?
Human Rights Challenges for Multinational Corporations Working and Investing in Conflict Zones
Corporate Complicity under International Criminal Law: A Case for Applying the Rome Statute to Business Behaviour
Regulating the Private Security Industry: Connecting the Public and the Private through Transnational Private Regulation
Ethical Accounting For The Conduct Of Private Military And Security Companies
False Extraterritoriality? Municipal and Multinational Jurisdiction over Transnational Corporations
Sunlight for the Heart of Darkness: Conflict Minerals and the First Wave of SEC Regulation of Social Issues
Shining Brightly? Human Rights and the Responsible Sourcing of Diamond and Gold Jewellery from High Risk and Conflict-Affected Areas
Corporate Human Rights Violations and Private International Law. A Facilitating Role for PIL or PIL as a Complicating Factor?
Year
2012
Volume
6
Number
1
Page
92
Language
English
Court
Reference
M. FROST en C. KINSEY, “Ethical Accounting For The Conduct Of Private Military And Security Companies”, HRILD 2012, nr. 1, 92-107
Recapitulation
Private military and security companies (PMSCs) are now a permanent feature of the Post-Cold War environment, providing a range of security and intelligence related support services to government agencies and the commercial sector. This phenomenon is set to grow in the coming years. At the same time, Western governments, in particular, have given little thought of the impact of PMSC activity on the welfare and human rights of the local communities affected by their presences. Furthermore, there is a strong likelihood of variations in the ethical standards set by PMSCs as well as responding to the desire to be a ‘good corporate citizen’. These ethical standards are a core-component of what some refer to as an emerging global governance network. A way to ensure PMSC behaviour meets the ethical standards demanded of the international community is for the same community to establish an international code of conduct that details the ethical standards that PMSCs should follow. This is what the international community hopes to achieve through drawing up the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Services Providers. However, at the moment there is no mechanism in place to make sure PMSCs abide by the ethical standards set out in the code. At the same time, there are problems associated with PMSCs, individual states or international organization auditing such a code. Thus, this article argues that an independent nongovernmental organisation (NGO) should take on this responsibility. It outlines the ethical architecture embedded in contemporary global practices that will ensure the success of such an organisation.
