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Article

20 Jun 2011

Author:
UNICEF, UN Global Compact, Save the Children

[DOC] Children’s Rights are at the heart of ‘Business’

UNICEF, Save the Children and UN Global Compact, are inviting businesses and civil society to take an active role in developing a global standard of business principles pertaining to children’s rights...Ms. Marta Mauras Perez (Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Chile) spoke of the growing momentum to address how business can respect children’s rights, and the importance of voluntary approaches that are framed and backed by the necessary regulatory frameworks so that these are not just well-meaning sentiments, but actually make a difference for children...Feed-back to date emphasizes the need to give very concrete and practical guidance to corporations on how to implement the Principles. This includes the development of indicators for measuring results based on having become involved in the implementation of the Principles.