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.
On Wednesday 15 September, Global Child Forum convened their annual Partner Advisory Board meeting at the Stockholm Royal Palace, attended by their founders, H.M.King Carl XVI Gustaf, H.M. Queen Silvia and H.R.H. Crown Princess, Victoria. The half-day meeting presented an ideal platform for the organization to share, with their business and knowledge partners, the progress and new strategic direction adopted over the past year. After opening remarks from the King, the meeting focused on Global Child Forum’s upcoming services and initiatives designed to mobilize the corporate sector to integrate a children’s rights perspective in their operation and communities. New tools, such as The Magnifier – a self-guided, digital “light materiality analysis” — and initiatives, such as upcoming Business Academy designed for the Tech & Telecom sector to fast-track their sustainability work with children’s rights, were presented. The organization also shared their strategy to increase their engagement with the financial sector in order to equip them with the data and insights needed for well-informed ESG investment decision-making. Part of this strategy is to ensure the uptake of the Global Child Forum’s benchmark data on how corporate address children’s rights – the next data set and report will be available at the end of November.
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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.
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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
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Save the Children International
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