How are children’s rights and child-related issues being tackled by leading agri companies? In this webinar, Global Child Forum and Wilmar, The Centre for Child Rights and Business and Insaight Consultancy – explore this timely and important question. The webinar introduces the case study on Wilmar’s path towards establishing more sustainable business practices– and developing a better understanding of the need to integrate a children’s rights perspective across its operations and suppliers. Further perspectives from The Centre for Child Rights and Business as well as Kamini Visvananthan, a consultant with Insaight Consultancy who led the development of the RSPO’s Child Rights Guidance series for key palm oil industry actors.
To mark the UN World Day Against Child Labour, and this year’s focus on the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour 2021, Global Child Forum’s Nina Vollmer looks more closely at what companies can do to help erase child labour from the map. Child labour is a complex issue, but findings from our benchmark report reveal that closing the disclosure gap, can be one step in the right direction.
Knowledge ignites action. That’s why we base our work in research. We conduct studies, develop tools and write and present best practices that illustrates what business can do when challenged with safeguarding children’s rights.
No. 4 in a series of company reflections for the Global Child Forum on the ways in which companies address children’s rights and child-related issues. The study showcases Wilmar’s path towards establishing more sustainable business practices and developing a better understanding of the need to integrate a children’s rights perspective across its operations and suppliers. Click here to read the State of Children’s Rights in Southeast Asia Benchmark 2020.
This data-driven research brief explores three research questions. 1) How much do we know about children’s basic access to the internet across the globe? 2) Do children regularly use the internet to access health information? 3) Are children able to verify the truth of online information?
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UNICEF
This report details progress on our four key pillars of the global COVID-19 response from Q2 to Q4 2020. It uses data collected from countries against each of the indicators set out in the COVID-19 response plan and uses children’s stories to highlight our work.
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Save the Children International
The global study by Save the Children reveals the hidden impacts of pandemic response measures which are impacting children’s health, nutrition, education, learning, protection, wellbeing, family finances and poverty. For the most marginalised and deprived children, those impacts have the potential to be life-altering and potentially devastating.
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Save the Children International
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