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Article

10 Jan 2013

Author:
Guardian Sustainable Business & UNICEF

Child rights: assessing business impacts - live discussion [17 Jan]

The Children’s Rights and Business Principles...[intend] to help companies weave a child rights perspective into their practices...Working with the Danish Institute for Human Rights, UNICEF have developed a checklist that companies can use to measure their implementation of the Principles...[I]n what other ways can business better identify, address and prevent the adverse impacts of their activities on child rights and maximise their positive influences? What policies and practices can be adopted to target the relevant child rights impact areas? How can business move from reactive to pro-active? Join our expert panel on Thursday 17 January, 2-4pm (GMT) to discuss these themes.