2025 Action Agenda: Confronting the 10 Challenges Affecting Children Worldwide

Global Child Forum underlines the 10 critical issues which will shape the children’s rights and business agenda for 2025.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Urges Tech & Telecom Giants to Prioritise Youth Safety Amid Escalating Mental Health Crisis

The Children’s Rights and Business Benchmark 2024 reveals alarming deficiencies in Tech and Telecom companies’ approach to safeguarding children.

PRESS RELEASE: 15% of the World’s Most Influential Companies Fail to Protect Children, Raising Urgent Concerns

The new benchmark report by Global Child Forum and Boston Consulting Group reveals a troubling decline in corporate prioritisation of child rights.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Launches Essential Playbook to Prioritise Children’s Rights within Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Global Child Forum is proud to release “The Corporate Playbook: Embedding Children’s Rights in ESRS Reporting,” supported by the LEGO Group.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum 2024: Engaging Youth as Key Stakeholders in Business

The Global Child Forum 2024 will address how businesses can engage with youth to integrate child rights into corporate strategies and policies.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum’s Partnership with Swedbank Robur is Shortlisted at the PRI Awards 2024

Swedbank Robur’s commitment to child rights and collaboration with Global Child Forum has been shortlisted at the PRI Awards 2024.

Q&A with Ekin Ergün Björstedt, Secretary General

We interviewed our new Secretary General, asking her about her vision for the organisation and the state of children’s rights in the corporate sustainability agenda.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Applauds the Global Digital Compact: A Milestone for Digital Rights and Children’s Safety

Global Child Forum welcomes a landmark international agreement offering a comprehensive framework for digital cooperation.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Welcomes Per Heggenes to its Board of Directors

Global Child Forum announces the appointment of children’s rights advocate Per Heggenes to its Board of Directors.

Feeding the Young: How Businesses Can Shape a Hunger-Free World

As we mark World Hunger Day 2024, Global Child Forum urges businesses to take responsibility for helping tackle poverty and food insecurity.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Announces New Secretary General, Ekin Ergün Björstedt

Ekin Björstedt has been appointed as the new Secretary General of Global Child Forum, effective August 2024.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Wins the Prestigious CFA Sweden ESG Award 2023

Global Child Forum has received the CFA Sweden ESG Award 2023 for its work to integrate child rights within sustainable investment processes.

Building a Responsible Future: Global Child Forum’s Endorsement of the CSDDD

Global Child Forum states its firm support for the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum and IKEA Foundation Extend Partnership, Amplifying Efforts to Prioritise Children’s Rights in Business

Global Child Forum announces a 4.5 million Euro grant over four years from IKEA Foundation, to influence businesses to positively impact children’s rights.

Tech and Telecom must do more to protect children’s rights

A Q&A with Katarina Mellström, Secretary General of Global Child Forum, on the intersection between children’s rights and technology.

2024 Action Agenda: Confronting the 10 Challenges Affecting Children Worldwide

Global Child Forum underlines the key children’s rights issues which will shape the organisation's agenda for 2024.

PRESS RELEASE: Global Child Forum Welcomes Helena Thybell to its Board of Directors

Global Child Forum announces the appointment of distinguished children’s rights and sustainability advocate Helena Thybell to its Board of Directors.