Postponed - visit to Libya by the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries

GENEVA (21 May 2012) – The country visit to Libya by the United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries, scheduled for 21-25 May, 2012, has been postponed due to technical reasons. Information on the new dates of the visit will be announced to the media as soon as available.

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The Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination was established in 2005 by the then Commission on Human Rights. It is composed of five independent experts serving in their personal capacities: Ms. Faiza Patel (Chair-Rapporteur, Pakistan), Ms. Patricia Arias (Chile), Ms. El¿bieta Karska (Poland) and Mr. Anton Katz (South Africa) and Mr. Gabor Rona (United States/Hungary). Learn more, log on to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Mercenaries/WGMercenaries/Pages/WGMercenariesIndex.aspx

Read the Working Group’s report to the UN General Assembly: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N11/477/70/PDF/N1147770.pdf?OpenElement

UN Human Rights, country page – Libya:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/MENARegion/Pages/LYIndex.aspx