{ "docId": "019dd923-622c-750b-8b9b-194c8c022fb7", "docSlug": "c06ee6912b0d", "documentTitle": "Accor SA (AC)", "authorId": "62_Grizzly_Research", "authorName": "Grizzly Research", "documentKindSlug": "research-note", "documentKindLabel": "Research note", "sourceTypeSlug": "short_seller", "sourceTypeLabel": "Short seller", "presentationDate": "2026-03-19 00:00:00", "orientation": "portrait", "aspectRatio": 0.77272725, "pageNumber": 38, "pageCount": 278, "prevPage": 37, "nextPage": 39, "slideType": "research-note", "function": "establish_context", "density": "dense", "nDataPoints": 0, "notes": "The text discusses the CRC, OPSC, Palermo Protocol, Council of Europe Convention, Lanzarote Convention, and the Rome Statute in the context of corporate liability.", "elementsJson": [ "paragraph" ], "metadataConfidence": 0.9, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019dd923-622c-750b-8b9b-194c8c022fb7/38", "deckHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b9b-194c8c022fb7", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b9b-194c8c022fb7.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b9b-194c8c022fb7#slide-38", "components": [ { "bbox": null, "kind": "callout", "text": "Accordingly, if the alleged exploitation of minors were shown to be linked to a broader organized pattern directed against civilians from occupied territory, these categories could become relevant as a matter of legal characterization.", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Visual emphasis", "toolSlug": "visual-emphasis", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd953-70fa-7556-8667-f3e1e1a38f98", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.93 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The relevant question for a private entity is whether the company, or individuals acting through it, knew or should have known that their premises or services were being used in connection", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "087a8275-8f50-4397-9881-e40b13c18dd0", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.35, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.08 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "trafficking instruments. Under the CRC, States must protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse and prevent the abduction, sale, or trafficking of children. Under the OPSC, States must criminalize the offering, obtaining, procuring, or providing of a child for child prostitution and related forms of exploitation, and again may impose liability on legal persons under domestic law. If a private entity knowingly hosted or facilitated arrangements involving minors in exploitative circumstances, these frameworks could be engaged, subject to the facts established and the applicable domestic implementing legislation. The Palermo Protocol (Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children) is central here. It defines trafficking in persons to include the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation, and for children no proof of force, coercion, or deception is required. Exploitation includes, at minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others and other forms of sexual exploitation. Accordingly, where a private entity knowingly receives, harbors, or facilitates the movement of minors for exploitative purposes, such conduct could potentially fall within the factual scope of child trafficking, with any resulting liability generally arising under national laws implementing the Protocol.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "1684aee8-1f30-4f25-a119-82b5dbef7a29", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.3, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.45 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "In Europe, this is reinforced by the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, which requires Parties to criminalize trafficking, address aiding and abetting, protect child victims, and provide for corporate liability where offences are committed for the benefit of a legal person or where lack of supervision made the offence possible. The Convention also contemplates measures such as the closure of establishments used to carry out trafficking offences. For private entities operating in Europe, this may provide one of the treaty-based pathways through which domestic criminal or regulatory exposure could arise where premises or services are knowingly used in connection with trafficking or the sexual exploitation of children. The Council of Europe Lanzarote Convention is also directly relevant. It is the core regional treaty on protecting children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, including child prostitution and related exploitation, and it places strong emphasis on prevention, reporting, victim protection, and criminalization. Where personnel of a private entity were alleged to have ignored apparent indicators of child sexual exploitation, or to have facilitated suspicious arrangements, this framework would also be relevant to the host State’s duties of prevention, investigation, and punishment.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "17bf6aba-ae56-4ada-afc0-cd10c20147a8", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.12, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.76 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Depending on scale and context, these acts may also engage international criminal law. Under the Rome Statute, rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, and other forms of sexual violence may constitute crimes against humanity when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack on a civilian population, and trafficking-related exploitation may also intersect with the crime against humanity of enslavement. 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