Publications & UN Reports

Jelena Aparac, Jean Francois Akanji-Kombe, Actes du Colloque, Répondre des crimes commis par le groupe Wagner : défis juridiques, Panthéon-Sorbonne (forthcoming)

Jelena Aparac, Ara Marcen (ed), Economic crime (forthcoming)

Jelena Aparac, Business et droit de l’homme dans des conflits armés, Bruylant, Brussels, 2021

Jelena Aparac & Yousuf Khan, Business and Human Rights in Armed Conflicts and Natural Resources, in Ricardo Pereira, Annalisa Savaresi and Lee McConnell Corporate Accountability, Human Rights and Natural Resource Governance in the Global South, Hart Publishers, 2026.

Jelena Aparac & Nema Milanina, Prospects for Climate Change-related Cases before the International Criminal Court, in Ivano Alogna et al. eds Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives, Brill Publishing, 2021.

Jelena Aparac,  Les droits de l’Homme et des camps des réfugiés en Afrique in  Sandra Szurek, Marina Eudes, Philippe Ryfman (eds) Traité de droit et pratique de l’action humanitaire,  Pédone, 2019.

Jelena Aparac, Les employés des sociétés militaires privées dans les conflits armés contemporains in F. Desprez et al,  Les acteurs privés de la sécurité, Mare & Martin, 2018.

Jelena Aparac, Panorama des outils juridiques mobilisés ou mobilisables par ou pour la RSE dans le respect et la mise en ouvre du droit  international humanitaire  in K. Martin-Chenut and R. De Quenaudon (eds),  La RSE saisie par le droit ; perspectives internes et internationales, CNRS, Pédone, 2017.

Jelena Aparac, Privatization of military and security functions- implications for the future warfare, vol 40, Emory International Law Review (under peer review).

Jelena Aparac, Attacks on Healthcare in Armed Conflict: Strengthening Legal Protection and Accountability under International Humanitarian Law, (under peer review).

Jelena Aparac, Private Military and Security Companies as a War Legacy: Lessons Learned From the Former Yugoslavia, Business and Human Rights Journal, Special Issue on Business and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe (2024).

Jelena Aparac & Julien Antouly, La protection des civils en conflits armés : Quel apport de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme ?, Revue Trimestrielle des droits de l’Homme (2023).

Jelena Aparac, Gaps in Corporate Liability: Limited Investigations of Corporate Crimes in Armed Conflicts, 23 International Community Law Review (2021).

Jelena Aparac, Business and Human Rights and Transitional Justice: Overcoming the Regulatory Dysfunction of International Law, Global Business Law Review (2021).

Jelena Aparac, Business and Armed Non-State Groups: Challenging the Landscape of Corporate (Un)accountability in Armed Conflicts, 5 Business and Human Rights Jounral 270 (2020).

Jelena Aparac, Les Chambres spécialisées pour le Kosovo et le Bureau du Procureur spécialisés : un échec de la communauté internationale 50 Belgian Review of International Law 166 (2017). 

Jelena Aparac, Which International Jurisdiction for Corporate Crimes in Armed Conflicts?, 57 Harvard International Law Journal Online (2016).

Jelena Aparac, Symposium on PMSCs: Deadly Agents Functioning as ‘Humanitarian Actors’, 15 July 2025, Opinio Juris

Jelena Aparac, Gabor Rona and Shaista Shameem, Regulating Private Military and Security Companies: What’s in it for States?, 7 April 2025, EJIL Talk

Jelena Aparac, “PMSC treaty” – why we need an international legally binding instrument to regulate private military and security companies, 30 May 2023, Cambridge Core Blog,

Jelena Aparac, Corporate responsibility and the draft definition of ecocide: a missed opportunity for accountability?, 9 July 2021, Völkerrechtsblog

Jelena Aparac, BHR Symposium: Business and Human Rights in Armed Conflicts—Exclusion of Corporate International Criminal Liability from the Second Draft Treaty, 8 September 2020, Opinio Juris

Jelena Aparac, Business and Armed Non-State Groups: Where Do We Stand? 17 June 2020, Armed Groups and International Law

Jelena Aparac, ICL and Environmental Protection Symposium: International Criminal Courts as Potential Jurisdiction for Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Crimes (Part II), 4 June 2020, Opinio Juris

Jelena Aparac, ICL and Environmental Protection Symposium: International Criminal Law as a Tool for Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Crimes (Part I), 4 June 2020, Opinio Juris

Jelena Aparac, Is Criminal Responsibility of Companies the Next Focus for International Justice, 18 July 2019, JUSTICEINFO.NET

Jelena Aparac, Yémen ? Vous avez dit une crise humanitaire ? March 2017 Human Rights Review

Jelena Aparac, L’attaque sur l’hôpital MSF à Kunduz : quelles voies réalistes pour une justice effective, February 2016, Human Rights Review

Reports drafted in my official capacity as a UN Independent Expert, together with four other colleagues of the UN Working Group on Mercenaries:

Report to the 78^th session of General Assembly,  The Regulatory Environment for Mercenaries, Mercenary-related actors, and PMSC: A Call to Action (A/78/535), 2023

Report to the 54^th session of the Human Rights Council,  Recruitment, including predatory recruitment, of mercenaries and mercenary-related actors (A/HRC/54/29), 2023

Report to the 77th session of the General Assembly: Role of PMSC in the Maritime Security (A/77/268), 2022

Report to the 51^st session of the Human Rights Council: Access to justice, accountability and remedies for victims of mercenaries, mercenary-related actors and private military and security companies Victims of mercenaries and PMSC (A/HRC/51/25), 2022

Report to the 76^th session of General Assembly: The human rights impacts of mercenaries, mercenary-related actors and private military and security companies engaging in cyber-activities (A/76/2434), 2021

Report to the 48^th  session of the Human Rights Council:The use of use of private military and security services in humanitarian action (A/HRC/48/51), 2021

Report to the 75^th  session of General Assembly: The evolving forms, trends and manifestations of mercenaries and mercenary-related activities (A/75/259), 2020

Report to the 45^th  session of the Human Rights Council: Impact of the use of private military and security services in immigration and border management on the protection of the rights of all migrants (A/HRC/45/9), 2020

Report to the 74^th  session of General Assembly:The gendered human rights impacts of private military and security companies (A/74/244), 2019

Report to the 42^nd  session of the Human Rights Council: Relationship between private military and security companies and the extractive industry from a human rights perspective (A/HRC/42/42), 2019

Report to the 73^rd session of General Assembly: Overview of the Working Group’s findings in connection with Sustainable Development Goal 16 (Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels) (A/73/303), 2018

Report to the 39^th  session of the Human Rights Council: Recruitment of children by non-State armed groups, including mercenaries, and private military and security companies (A/HRC/39/49), 2018

OFFICIAL COUNTRY VISITS:

Visit to Armenia – Report of 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, A/HRC/54/29/Add.2, 14 July 2023

Visit to Switzerland – Report of 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, A/HRC/45/9/Add.1, 7 July 2020