A/HRC/33/41 (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. 23

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