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Article

16 Jan 2013

Author:
Zheng Ying Chong, CSR Asia

Sustaining support for children’s rights

The United Nations Global Compact’s Children’s Rights and Business Principles...are a good starting point...[but to] ensure sustainability in this fight for children’s rights, the next phase which is based around concrete implementation of policies and action is crucial...CSR Asia has embarked on an innovative project with...Aviva to build on these initiatives. This project will begin with a thought leadership paper on the role businesses can play where particularly vulnerable children are concerned. This paper will [be] a first step to achieving our end goal of potentially convening a business coalition that specifically supports street and vulnerable children to achieve their rights...[with a] focus specifically on vulnerable and street children in Asia...