Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft2019-09-252019-09-252015-02-232010-11-09http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/218872Private Security Companies and other Private Security Service Providers (collectively “PSCs”) play an important role in protecting state and non-state clients engaged in relief, recovery, and reconstruction efforts, commercial business operations, diplomacy and military activity. In providing these services, the activities of PSCs can have potentially positive and negative consequences for their clients, the local population in the area of operation, the general security environment, the enjoyment of human rights and the rule of law. The purpose of this Code is to set forth a commonly-agreed set of principles for PSCs and to establish a foundation to translate those principles into related standards as well as governance and oversight mechanisms. (Preamble)engWith permission of the license/copyright holdercode of conductcode of ethicsprivate securitystate protectionrule of lawPolitical ethicsGovernance and ethicsCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsPreprint