In November, Marriott International's Board of Directors approved a change in its Human Rights policy to specifically include a section on the Protection of Children. "We commend Marriott for following through on their pledge to develop a policy to address the issue of the sexual exploitation of children as part of our agreement to withdraw the shareholder resolution that we filed on behalf of our clients at the end of 2005," said Carina Silberg, Research Analyst of GES Investment Services of Sweden... Marriott is also taking a leadership role in the International Business Leaders Forum that is working on an industry-wide initiative to prevent child sex tourism. Marriott started including in all pre-arrival email messages (20 million are sent by Marriott each year to registered guests), the Responsible Tourist and Traveller brochure developed by the United Nations World Tourism Organization which includes a message about not engaging in child sex tourism since it is a crime.