BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS / Šturma, Mozetic (eds)

companies’ assessment, consultations and public disclosure of their human rights impact; legal accountability for human rights violations of companies operating abroad; implementation, monitoring and remedies for victims of violations; and awareness- raising about harmful impact of some practices on children rights. Concerning the legislative and regulatory framework, the CRC Committee has recommended to the State parties on number of occasions “to examine and adapt its legislative framework to ensure the legal accountability of business enterprises and their subsidiaries operating in or managed from the State party ’s territory, especially in tourism sector, in relation to the sale and sexual and labour exploitation of and trafficking in children” 12 or more generally, “to establish a regulatory framework to deal with the impact of the business sector on children’s rights” 13 or “to establish and implement regulations to ensure that the business sector complies with international human rights” 14 or that “the business activities do not negatively affect the rights of the child” . 15 The CRC Committee has also regularly recommended to States to ensure effective implementation of human rights standards by business companies, to monitor such implementation and to provide remedies for victims when violations occur. As a preventive measure, the CRC Committee has suggested to States to require companies to undertake assessment of, consultation in relation to and full public disclosure of the human rights impacts of their business activities and plans to address such impact. 16 In this context, the CRCCommittee has also referred to the concept of corporate social responsibility, requesting States to adopt corporate social responsibility parameters, including child rights due diligence, for operations of corporations and other businesses both at home and abroad. 17 The recommendation to undertake awareness-raising campaigns for business sector has been made mainly in relation to the tourism industry. For instance, a recommendation to “undertake awareness-raising campaigns for the tourism industry and the public at large on the prevention of child sex tourism, and widely disseminate the World Tourism Organization Global Code of Code of Ethics for Tourism among travel agents in the tourism industry” . 18 Regarding extraterritoriality of human rights protection, some State parties have been requested to take measure so that business enterprises and subsidiaries operating in or managed from the State party’s territory do not violate human rights abroad, including 12 Concluding observations: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (CRC/C/VCT/CO/2-3), Maldives (CRC/C/ MDV/CO/4-5), Colombia (CRC/C/COL/CO/4-5), Gambia (CRC/C/GMB/CO/2-3), Morocco (CRC/C/ MAR/CO/3-4), Georgia (CRC/C/GEO/CO/4). 13 Concluding observations: Switzerland (CRC/C/CHE/CO/2-4). 14 Concluding observations: Central African Republic (CRC/C/CAF/CO/2), New Zealand (CRC/C/NZL/ CO/3-4), Kazakhstan (CRC/C/KAZ/CO/4). 15 Concluding observations: Ireland (CRC/C/IRL/CO/3-4), France (CRC/C/FRA/CO/5), Chile (CRC/C/ CHL/CO/4-5). 16 Concluding observations: India (CRC/C/IND/CO/3-4), Russian Federation (CRC/C/RUS/CO/4-5), Sao Tome and Principe (CRC/C/STP/CO/2-4), Kuwait (CRC/C/KWT/CO/2), Denocratic Republic of the Congo (CRC/C/COD/CO/3-5). 17 Concluding observations: New Zealand (CRC/C/NZL/CO/5). 18 Concluding observations: Georgia (CRC/C/GEO/CO/4), South Africa (CRC/C/OPSC/YAF/CO/1), Maldives (CRC/C/MDV/CO/4-5), Poland (CRC/C/POL/CO/3-4), Madagascar (CRC/C/OPSC/MDG/ CO/1).

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