Digital ActionLabs
June 2020
We live in a rapidly changing world where unprecedented challenges call on business to formulate new strategies to remain relevant. We are experiencing the consequences of climate change, navigating risks and opportunities of digitalisation, understanding shifting consumer patterns and adapting to new demographic and globalisation trends. Business and children alike are key stakeholders in this new setting. Both groups are enablers, catalysts, and drivers of change. And both have great potential to create positive impacts.
Our Digital Action Labs this fall will address four themes;
The Advantage for Business to Engage with Children’s Rights, October 8th
How to reach an edge in engaging with children’s rights in your company’s operations and strategic planning?
Listening to the Change-Maker Generation, October 20th
How are the emerging generation of change makers influencing societal relations to consumption and companies?
A Collapsing Planet: The Impact of Climate Change on Children’s Health, November 3rd
What are the health effects on children from corporate mitigation and adaptation to climate change?
Data Mining in the Sandbox: Children’s Safety Online, November 18th
Exploring the tension between products that make children’s lives better, and the collection of data that goes in the process.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Prof. Dr. Veronica Barassi, Professor in Media and Communications Studies at the University of St. Gallen
Dr. David Boyd, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Prof. Vanina Farber, Professor and elea Chair for social innovation, IMD Business School and World Economic Forum
Ms Omnia Elomrani, Liason Officer for Public Health Issues at the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations
Dr. Thoko Kaime, Senior teaching Fellow at the School of Law, SOAS University of London and at the University of Essex
Prof. Dr. Eva Lievens, Professor of Law and Technology at Ghent University
Ms Ingrida Milkaite, PhD Researcher in the research group Law & Technology at Ghent University
Ms Leah Namugerwa, Youth Activist from Fridays for Future Uganda
Ms Julia Olson, Executive Director & Chief Legal Counsel at Our Children’s Trust
Ms Jenny Lindén Urnes, Owner and Chair of Lindéngruppen, a family business focusing on sustainable long-term development of industrial companies
More speakers will follow!
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Telia Company asked 7, 000 students across seven countries in the Nordics and Baltics about their experiences from studying from home. Despite challenges and substantial changes in habits that happened overnight, their overall experience has been largely positive. The survey gives insights into how digital schooling can be further developed in the future.
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Telia Company
Children are increasingly becoming more valued, cherished and respected stakeholders in business communities. In their multiple roles such as for example consumers, family members, future leaders and co-workers, children are receiving the attention of high-profile sustainability professionals and executives that invest their time, money and considerable effort to carve out the best possible strategies to do business with children’s interests in mind. In this Action Lab we will hear from some of the champions in integrating children’s rights concerns from both supply chain perspectives, product development angles as well as those working with materiality, child participation and stakeholder participation. Why is it valuable, smart and interesting for companies to engage with children’s rights?
This document builds on material developed by UNICEF EAPRO, UNICEF ESARO and the ILO. It is an interim guidance note, developed in a fast-evolving situation. It provides general recommendations that aim to help employers strengthen support for workers and their families.
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International Labour Organization
With the COVID-19 pandemic, we face the risk of reverting years of progress. We may see an increase in child labour for the first time in 20 years. This is why ILO and UNICEF decided to look into the ways the crisis is affecting child labour.
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International Labour Organization
Of all the heartbreaking effects of COVID-19, its impact on young people could prove to be one of its most damaging legacies. In fact, the coronavirus crisis risks turning back the clock on years of progress made on children’s well-being and has put children’s rights under serious pressure across the globe. Linda Lodding, Head of Communications at Global Child Forum, takes a closer look at these pressure points.
While digital solutions provide significant opportunities for sustaining and promoting children’s rights, these same tools may also increase children’s exposure to online risks. This technical note from UNICEF and partners sets out some of the key priorities and recommendations on how to mitigate those risks and promote positive online experiences for children.
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UNICEF
Unprecedented in scale, COVID-19 is a global crisis that poses immediate threats to children’s rights to survival, development, learning, protection, and to be heard. Unless mitigated, the pandemic risks undermining progress made on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and puts an entire generation of children at risk of not fulfilling their potential.
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Save the Children International
ICC – UNICEF guidance for businesses to safeguard the well-being of employees, their children and their families while responding to COVID-19. This guide, which is adapted from a UNICEF guide for business, includes measures that business leaders can take to achieve both short- and long-term positive impacts.
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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and UNICEF
The worldwide coronavirus pandemic continues to spread exponentially, driving up the numbers of infected people to over 267,000 in more than 184 countries to date. COVID-19 confirmed cases are also rising in Eastern and Southern Africa and time is of the essence to take the right measures to contain and slow down its spread. Here are key actions you can take to team up against COVID-19.
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UNICEF
UNICEF is committed to continuing to deliver assistance to children across areas affected by COVID-19 and is working with governments and partners in business, civil society and other sectors to find solutions to ensure children continue to receive the assistance they urgently need. This guide serves to inform businesses on the different actions they can take and contributions they can make to help reduce the impact of COVID-19 on children and families.
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UNICEF
What is the real impact of COVID-19 on child labour and forced labour? How the ILO has repurposed its resources and operations to mitigate the devastating effects of the pandemic? How the international community can contribute to this effort? Based on an analysis of the most evident effects of COVID-19 on child labour and forced labour, the briefing note presents 6 urgent interventions aimed to reach around 1 million vulnerable children, communities and families in 10 countries.
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International Labour Organization
This report outlines key human rights risks to children related to the COVID-19 crisis, and steps that governments should take to protect children’s rights in the pandemic, mitigate its devastating effects, and benefit children after the crisis is over.
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Human Rights Watch