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(k)
Work with relevant national and international organizations on
monitoring and identification systems for hazardous remnants of armed conflict.
Governments must provide an effective remedy for hazardous remnants of conflict
and other military activities, including funding for full remediation, comprehensive
medical treatment and compensation for individuals experiencing the effects of
exposure to these materials;
(l)
Require businesses to undertake child rights due diligence to ensure
businesses meet their obligation to adopt measures to respect children’s rights;
(m) Include the issue of toxics and pollution within all national action plans
on business and human rights, and within the national policy framework for
implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
(n)
Take up these recommendations in their review of their peers during the
universal periodic review.
111.
Businesses should:
(a)
As part of their human rights due diligence, identify, prevent and
mitigate exposure of children to toxics through their activities, products or business
relationships, including global supply chains and other international relationships;
(b)
Generate and disclose information related to the risks of exposure and
on the intrinsic hazards of industrial substances, pesticides and food additives that
they manufacture and sell;
(c)
Communicate publicly and objectively measures taken to mitigate
potential childhood exposures;
(d)
Where safer alternatives exist, use those alternatives to mitigate human
rights impacts. Where alternatives do not exist, businesses should actively invest in the
development and adoption of safer alternatives and mitigation measures;
(e)
Ensure that health and safety information about the potential hazards to
children of industrial chemicals and pesticides is generated and is made available and
accessible to regulators and businesses down the supply or value chain;
112.
International organizations should:
(a)
Integrate the problem of toxic chemicals, pollution and waste into the
work of their organization, based on their respective competencies, and monitor and
report on the issue;
(b)
Increase efforts to reduce the exposure of children and women of
reproductive age to toxic chemicals, particularly of child workers and those living in
high-risk situations.
113.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child should:
(a)
Increase its attention to the children’s rights impacts of pollution and
toxics when reviewing States’ obligations under the Convention;
(b)
Consider undertaking a study on the impacts of toxics and pollution on
the rights of the child, recognizing the State’s obligation to prevent exposure to such
hazardous substances and wastes, and building on its general comment No. 16.
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