Business and child rights

CRC Recommendations (2022)

• 15(a) Establish, implement and monitor regulations to ensure that the business sector, including tourism, complies with international standards in the areas of human and children’s rights, health, labour and environment;
• 15(b) Undertake awareness-raising campaigns with the tourism industry and the public at large on the prevention of sexual exploitation of children in the context of travel and tourism, with particular attention to migrant boys; strengthen data collection in this regard; and consider ratifying the UNWTO Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics;
• 15(c) Harmonise its current climate mitigation policy, including in relation to domestic heating and the transportation sector, with its obligation to protect the rights of children, in particular the rights to health, food and an adequate standard of living, both in Greece and abroad;
• 15(d) Consider the impact of climate change on the rights of the child in its energy policy, including in relation to fossil fuel extraction and fossil fuels subsidies.