| No |
Recommendation |
Convention/Treaty Body |
| CRC-21(b) |
Undertake awareness-raising campaigns with the tourism industry and the public at large on the prevention of child sex tourism and widely disseminate the charter of honour for tourism and the World Tourism Organization global code of ethics for tourism among travel agents and in the tourism industry; |
Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| CRC-21(c) |
Strengthen its international cooperation against child sex tourism through multilateral, regional and bilateral arrangements for its prevention and elimination, including executing international information exchange agreements so that sex offenders can be identified while crossing borders. |
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 |
| CEDAW - 35 |
The State party should:
(a) Take measures to enhance awareness among women employees, including migrant women, about the provisions of the Employment Act, in particular on sexual harassment, and about remedies available to protect their rights;
(b) Provide sex-disaggregated data on the position of women in the labour market and reduce the gender pay gap, including by addressing occupational sex segregation and enforcing the principle of equal pay for work of equal value;
(c) Design and implement public policies to extend social protection coverage to women in the informal economy and self-employed women;
(d) Address obstacles preventing women from entering the labour market by implementing measures to promote the reconciliation of family and work responsibilities of women and men;
(e) Regulate and monitor the working conditions of migrant women employed as domestic workers in order to protect them from exploitative labour, through increased inspections and the imposition of fines on abusive employers;
(f) Promote opportunities for women to seek employment in the tourism sector. |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| UPR - 143.71 |
Adopt legislation for the protection of the environment and establish a joint private-public partnership to reduce the environmental impact of tourism on livelihoods and the rights to housing, safe drinking water, health and an adequate standard of life for its inhabitants |
Universal Periodic Review |
| 133.239 |
133.239 Adopt measures to protect children from possible violations of their rights in the field of tourism activities, including awareness campaigns to prevent the use of children in sex tourism (Ecuador); |
Universal Periodic Review - 3rd cycle |
| 133.242 |
133.242 Take all measures necessary to protect children from the violation of their rights in the context of tourism activities, particularly the sexual exploitation of children in tourism (Luxembourg); |
Universal Periodic Review - 3rd cycle |
| 133.247 |
133.247 Adopt an effective normative framework to protect children from the violation of their rights that might arise from tourism activities, especially the use of children in sex tourism (Panama); |
Universal Periodic Review - 3rd cycle |
| 133.248 |
133.248 Adopt measures to protect children against the violation of their rights in the context of tourism activities (Senegal); |
Universal Periodic Review - 3rd cycle |
| 133.90 |
Promote the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, especially among the tourism-related enterprises, to ensure the promotion and protection of human rights in the business sector |
Universal Periodic Review - 3rd cycle |
| 2021-40.(c) |
40.(c) Introduce specific measures to promote the inclusion of women in private sector tourism employment and in the marine economy |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |