CRC/C/GEO/CO/4
Cooperation with civil society
13.
The Committee recalls its previous recommendation (see CRC/C/GEO/CO/3,
para. 19), encouraging the State party to collaborate more actively with civil society,
including non-governmental and children’s organizations, in the planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, plans and programmes related
to the Convention and in the promotion of children’s rights.
Children’s rights and the business sector
14.
In the light of its general comment No. 16 (2013) on State obligations regarding
the impact of the business sector on children’s rights and the concerns raised by the
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
(see A/HRC/34/55/Add.1, paras. 30 and 76), the Committee recommends that the State
party:
(a)
Examine and adapt its legislative framework (civil, criminal and
administrative) to ensure the legal accountability of business enterprises and their
subsidiaries operating in or managed from the State party’s territory, especially in the
tourism industry;
(b)
Establish monitoring mechanisms for the investigation and redress of
violations of children’s rights, with a view to improving accountability and
transparency;
(c)
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 Ethics for Tourism among travel agents
and in the tourism industry;
(d)
Strengthen its international cooperation against child sex tourism
through multilateral, regional and bilateral arrangements for its prevention and
elimination.
B.
General principles (arts. 2, 3, 6 and 12)
Non-discrimination
15.
While welcoming the adoption of the law on the elimination of all forms of
discrimination in May 2014, the Committee recalls its previous concluding
observations (see CRC/C/GEO/CO/3, para. 22) and urges the State party to:
(a)
Allocate the necessary human, technical and financial resources to
institutions in charge of monitoring the implementation of the law on the elimination
of all forms of discrimination and especially to the Office of the Public Defender, and
collect disaggregated data on cases of discrimination against children, including
children with disabilities, children in street situations, children in the juvenile justice
system, children belonging to minorities, children of disadvantaged families, children
living in rural or remote areas and children who are refugees or internally displaced,
with a view to developing comprehensive strategies aimed at ending all forms of
discrimination;
(b)
Ensure that the law is appropriately integrated and consistently
interpreted and applied, that perpetrators are adequately sanctioned and child
victims of discrimination are provided with effective and appropriate remedies;
(c)
Combat the practice of sex-selective abortion, including by addressing its
root causes and the long-term implications for society, expanding family planning
services and carrying out awareness-raising activities on the detrimental impact of sex
selection and on the equal value of girls and boys, in line with previous
recommendations of the Human Rights Committee (see CCPR/C/GEO/CO/4, para. 7
(f)).
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