RECOMMENDATION
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.
| Recommendation No: | CRC OP- 23 |
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| Recommendation Year: | 2009 |
| Recommendation Text: | 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. |
| Convention/Treaty Body: | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography |
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