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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.
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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.
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.
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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
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Collaboration
Collaboration
Workplace
Marketplace
Community &
Environment
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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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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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.
Johan Öberg
Managing Director
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Boston Consulting Group
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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.
Feb 2020
PRESS RELEASE: Filippa Bergin joins Global Child Forum as new Head of Research and Business Development
Filippa Bergin has been appointed new Head of Research and Business Development at Global Child Forum, charged with leading on the organization’s work to strengthen the understanding and relationship between corporate profitability and children’s rights. She assumed her role on January 9.
Sep 2019
Global Child Forum Calls on Asian Business Leaders to Prioritize Children’s Rights
BANGKOK 16 September – Global Child Forum, a Stockholm-based leader in children’s rights and business, is bringing together actors from business and civil society to take action on children’s rights at the CSR Asia Summit – the region’s foremost annual sustainability event being held on September 18 - 19. This is the third time Global Child Forum has participated in this summit, underscoring their commitment to placing child rights on the corporate social responsibility agenda in the region.
Apr 2019
Partner Advisory Board Meeting 2019
This year’s Partner Advisory Board at the Royal Stockholm Palace, held on March 27th, marks Global Child Forum 10-year anniversary. The organisation’s partners come together annually for a half-day meeting to discuss the challenges faced by children the world over and the role that business can play in addressing these challenges. The meeting also looked to the next 10 years and focused on how Global Child Forum can increase it’s relevancy to the corporate sector.
