Unity Resources Group
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| Private Company | |
| Industry | Security, Consulting |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Gordon Conroy |
| Headquarters | Singapore, Singapore |
| Website | http://www.unityresourcesgroup.com/ |
Unity Resources Group is an Australian-owned private military and security consulting company.
Unity Resources Group (Unity) was established in Australia in 2000 and operates across the core markets of Australia, Africa, The Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe.
It describes itself as having a "diverse client base, spanning government, non-government and multi-national business sectors".
With the conclusion of the war in Iraq in 2003, Unity developed the business from a small consultancy through to independently winning and managing a number of large contracts with multi-national corporates and government agencies which continue to be serviced by Unity today.
The company is mainly staffed by Australian nationals. However, in 2010 most of the guard duties at the Australian embassy in Baghdad were being done by Chilean military veterans.
Unity is a member of the International Stability Operations Association, and was a member of the Private Security Company Association of Iraq before that organisation dissolved in 2011.
Unity is an integrated risk mitigation solutions provider for clients in complex, challenging and fragile environments globally.
It offers the following services:
Unity has partnered with Tokio Marine HCC to provide its Kidnap and Ransom policyholders with crisis response services on a worldwide basis.
On January 17, 2007, American aid worker Andrea "Andi" Parhamovich and three of her URG guards were killed when their convoy was ambushed by insurgents in the Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmouk. Parhamovich was returning from a meeting at Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters when the well-planned attack occurred. There had been three reported attacks in and around Yarmouk in the previous five days.
On , employees of the company shot at an approaching car in Baghdad. Two civilian women, both in the front seat, were killed: Marou Awanis, 48, a mother of three, and Genevia Askander, 30. The shooting has provoked strong outrage in Iraq, since it follows closely on the Blackwater Baghdad shootings of September 16, 2007 that led to the Iraqi government's attempt to ban Blackwater from Iraq. Both women have been identified as Armenian Christians.
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