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Whether you are a financial analyst or sustainability professional, you have the power to make sure your decisions have a positive effect on children’s lives.

You can make sure of that by incorporating children’s rights into the heart of your sustainability and business strategy. First, let’s find out if your company or investment has a benchmark score, and how well they’ve incorporated children’s rights into their business.

Learn more about The Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights Benchmark and our company universe here.

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Webinar: May 16, 2023

Family Friendly Policies and their Effects

Join the Global Child Forum to listen to a panel of three experts to better understand how family friendly policies not only help children and parents but employers who enact them.

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4.5

TRN USD AUM

Investors are integrating Global Child Forum’s data on children’s rights into investment and stewardship strategies.

59%

of the most influential global companies benchmarked

In 2020, Global Child Forum joined the World Benchmarking Alliance and adopted the SDG2000 as our company universe.

9%

LEADERS

With only 9 % of companies scoring as “Leaders”, our latest benchmark shows that many companies still have a way to go to fully recognize children as stakeholders and adequately address how their business impacts children’s lives.

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The State of Children's Rights and Business 2023

Global Child Forum, in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, collects children’s rights data on some of the world’s most influential companies – assessing to what extent they address children’s rights in their public reporting.

This year, Global Child Forum is benchmarking 1,113 companies, distributed across eight sectors and six regions, against a set of 25 indicators.

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Top 5

Best performing companies

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 Food, Beverage & Personal Care Benchmark 2022.

Choose your sector to see the top five scoring companies within the specific sector, or search for a specific company result below.

Select industry:
Company Average score
Wilmar International
Olam International
Fuji Oil Holdings
Cargill
Sime Darby Plantation
Suntory
Ferrero
Kellogg's
The Hershey Company
Nestlé
Reckitt Benckiser (RB)
Unilever
L’Oreal
Arçelik
Colgate-Palmolive
Aldi Nord
Aeon
Ahold Delhaize
Migros
Aldi South Group
Governance &
Collaboration
Workplace
Marketplace
Community &
Environment
Our business case is clear for us – when societies do better, we do better! Children are the future of any society. When they have their rights, when they are empowered as children, and then as adults, the society flourishes, and so do businesses.

Zainab Hussain Siddiqui

VP Sustainability at Telenor

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Global Child Forum's
Benchmark data helps investors incorporate children’s rights into thematic funds, active ownership and investment strategies.

CATHARINA BELFRAGE SAHLSTRAND

GROUP HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY AT SVENSKA HANDELSBANKEN

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Tools to make a difference

Benchmarks

How are the world’s largest companies responding to children’s rights?

The Workbook

Don’t know where to start? Learn how to respect and support children's rights in your business.

The Magnifier

How does your business impact children? Identify your knowledge gaps in ten minutes, and learn about related risks and opportunities.

Business Academy

Want to become a Leader within Children's Rights and Business? Our programme focuses on peer-to-peer networking, collaboration and will guide you through a due diligence process.