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Whether you’re a financial analyst or sustainability professional, your decisions have the power to effect children’s lives in a positive way.
You can achieve this by incorporating children’s rights into the heart of your sustainability and business strategies. First, find out if your company or investment has a benchmark score – then discover how well children’s rights are incorporated into the business.
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The State of Children’s Rights & Business 2023
The latest Global Benchmark Report is here
Global Child Forum has benchmarked 1,108 companies, distributed across eight sectors and six regions, against a set of 25 indicators.
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Since 2013, Global Child Forum has been benchmarking the world’s most influential companies, assessing how they respond to children’s rights. Our data can be used by corporates to increase their social impact, and for investors to inform their decision-making.
The scores in this top list come from the Global Benchmark 2023, and are based on the total selection of 1108 companies – find out more about which companies were benchmarked here.
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Airbus
Wesfarmers
Volvo AB
Schneider Electric
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
Bayer
POSCO
Norsk Hydro
Vale
Glencore
Kering
Ingka Holding (Ikea)
Ford
LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton
General Motors Corporation (GM)
OMV
Neste
Galp Energia
SK Innovation
Compania Espanola de Petroleos (CEPSA)
NN Group
Absa Group
Westpac
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)
Itau Unibanco Holding
Wilmar International
Nestlé
General Mills
The Hershey Company
Jeronimo Martins
Merck KGaA
Sanofi
AstraZeneca
Aspen Pharmacare
Merck & Co
Telia
Verizon
Vodafone
PLDT
Cisco
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Oct 2023
PRESS RELEASE: Global Report Shows Alarming Decline in Corporate Responsibility Towards Children
The latest benchmark from Global Child Forum reveals a significant decrease in corporate responsibility towards children.
Oct 2023
Protecting the Youngest: Global Child Forum’s Call for Children Amidst Escalating Violence in Gaza and Israel
Global Child Forum urges all parties involved in the escalating conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel to protect children, and adhere to international human rights laws.
Oct 2023
PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Launches Industry Risk Tool to Empower Investors
Global Child Forum has launched a new digital tool enabling investors to quickly assess key children's rights risks across industries.
Sep 2023
PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Announces Growing Support from the Financial Sector
As Penser Bank becomes its latest funding partner, Global Child Forum announces that support for children's rights is increasing from the financial sector.
Sep 2023
Successful Collaboration between Swedbank Robur and Global Child Forum
Global Child Forum and Swedbank Robur recently joined forces to contact prominent global companies regarding their approach to child rights.
Aug 2023
PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Commends UN Committee's Historic Call for Action on Children's Right to a Clean and Sustainable Environment
Global Child Forum lauds the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, as it calls for firm action on the safeguarding of children's environmental rights.
Jul 2023
PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Calls on European Commission to Tighten Children’s Rights Reporting Standards
The European Commission has released the draft delegated regulation that complements the European Accounting Directive and includes the initial set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) required by the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
Feb 2023
Q&A with Katarina Mellström, Secretary General
We asked our new Secretary General eight questions about herself, her vision for the organisation and the state of children’s rights in the corporate sustainability agenda.
Dec 2022
PRESS RELEASE: Majority of Food, Beverage & Personal Care Companies Fail to Address Childrens’ Rights
Global Child Forum, which produces the world’s largest benchmark on companies’ impact on children, today released its global report on the state of children’s rights in the food, beverage and personal care sector,
Sep 2022
PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum and The PRI are driving corporate action to improve children’s lives
Global Child Forum benchmark data on children’s rights and business is a core pillar in The PRI’s human rights data, offerings investors an understanding of how children’s rights issues are being measured across sectors.
Mar 2022
PRESS RELEASE: Vodafone, Telenor, Deutsche Telekom top Global Child Forum’s Tech & Telecom Children’s Rights and Business Benchmark
Stockholm-based Global Child Forum today announced the results of their latest benchmark report which takes a close look at the state of children’s rights within the Technology and Telecommunications sector.
Nov 2021
PRESS RELEASE: Global Benchmark report 2021
Stockholm-based Global Child Forum today announced the results of their report, “The State of Children’s Rights and Business 2021”, showing that companies need to urgently address the implications of their climate actions on children.
Nov 2021
PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum opens their Business Academy
Stockholm-based Global Child Forum announced today the launch of their newest program, The Business Academy, designed to be a children’s rights and business accelerator helping companies focus on their children’s rights risks and opportunities, supported with peer-to-peer learning.
