The United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries...urged the Honduran Government to reinforce the overseeing role of the Control Unit of Private Security Services to ensure that private security companies comply with the law. The human rights experts...called on the authorities to strengthen the judicial system to properly investigate and prosecute crimes committed by private security guards and to ensure that victims receive effective remedies...[T]he delegation received consistent information that many private security guards carry firearms that are prohibited and are allegedly used to commit human rights violations...[T]he experts voiced concern about the alleged involvement of private security companies hired by landowners in widespread human rights violations including killings, disappearances, forced evictions and sexual violence against representatives of peasant associations in the Bajo Aguán region. “There is a wide scale impunity prevailing in the country as well as a total lack of confidence of the population in the judiciary, as these human rights violations allegedly committed by private security companies are not investigated, perpetrators remain unprosecuted and victims do not have access to remedies,”...[a member of the delegation] said.