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Article

25 Jun 2014

Author:
Magdalena Kettis, Guardian (UK)

How are children affected by the operations of companies?

Children are both directly and indirectly affected by the activities and operations of companies in a number of ways…The financial sector is thus an important stakeholder. To understand how investors perceive and manage children's rights we worked with GES…to survey how investors integrate children's rights in their responsible investment policies and practices… We invited 195…asset owner and signatories to the PRI…to participate…The main findings of the… study were: Investors typically focus more on child labor and less on other children's rights issues… related to for example product responsibility and responsible marketing…11 respondents have, or are planning to, develop a procedure for integrating children's rights into their investment decision-making process. The study also showed that the awareness of the Convention of the Rights of the Child or Children's Rights Business Principles was very low…