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  • Dangerous Partnership- Private Military and Security Companies and the UN (July 10, 2012)

    http://www.globalpolicy.org/multimedia/podcast/51757-dangerous-partnership-private-military-and-security-companies-an

    Lou Pingeot

    GPF’s report on the use of Private Military and Security Companies by the United Nations is out! This investigative report reveals that the UN has dramatically increased its use of these companies in recent years, hiring them for a wide array of “security services” and giving them considerable influence over its security policies. It also reveals that the UN has no process to vet these companies and that UN leadership has been closing its eyes to company misconduct for more than twenty years. GPF calls on the UN to reform this out-of-control system and to critically examine whether these companies really make the UN safer, or whether they might achieve the opposite effect. You can read the executive summary and the full report. This podcast features a presentation from the author Lou Pingeot.