Committee on the Rights of the Child, Recommendation for Argentina, par. 13 (2018)

Text of the recommendation

13. Reiterating its concern at the continued lack of clear guidelines and regulations for business corporations, both national and transnational, on the protection of and respect for children’s rights, and with reference to its general comment No. 16 (2013) on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Establish a legally binding framework for domestic and foreign businesses, ensuring that they are accountable and that their activities do not negatively affect human rights or contravene environmental and other standards, especially those relating to children ’ s rights, including foreign operations ;
(b) Require all companies to undertake due diligence with regard to children ’s rights, in particular to carry out periodic child-rights impact assessments, consultations and full public disclosure of the environmental, health-related and human rights impact of their business activities, and their plans to address such an impact.