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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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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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Protecting children’s rights should not be optional – companies need to improve
Andreas Lundmark, MD & Partner at Boston Consulting Group about how companies need to improve on protecting children’s rights.
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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.
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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
Colgate-Palmolive
Arçelik
Aldi Nord
Aeon
Ahold Delhaize
Migros
Jeronimo Martins
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Collaboration
Collaboration
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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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CATHARINA BELFRAGE SAHLSTRAND
GROUP HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY AT SVENSKA HANDELSBANKEN
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Business Academy
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Johan Öberg
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and Senior Partner
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.
