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CRC-59(1) The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to address the incidence of drug use by children and adolescents by, inter alia, providing children and adolescents with accurate and objective information as well as life skills education on preventing substance abuse — including tobacco and alcohol, and develop accessible and youth-friendly drug dependence treatment and harm reduction services. Convention on the Rights of the Child 
CRC OP- 23 The Committee recommends that the State party take additional preventive measures to combat drug abuse. Furthermore, the committee reiterates its recommendation from 2007 (CRC/C/MDV/CO/3, para. 93) that the State party pay particular attention to the existing risk factors, such as increasing child sex tourism in the region, and continue to collaborate with the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB) and tourism service providers in this respect in order to better meet the Code of Conduct set up by the World Tourism Organisation on the protection of children from commercial sexual exploitation in travel and tourism. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
UPR - 141.99 Try to minimize the negative consequences of drug-related crimes on human rights Universal Periodic Review
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