Children’s rights and business

We can work with you and guide your company through a process that we adapt to your individual needs. We will check your value chain, guidelines and business practices, for instance, in order to determine where and how your activities have an impact on children and their rights.

This results in a concrete action plan for your company, which guarantees the implementation of a children’s rights perspective in your long-term business model. We develop customised agreements and processes for each individual case, so that the jointly penned suggestions stay relevant in practice.

Contact us at partner@savethechildren.ch. We would be happy to arrange an initial consultation with no obligation.

The relationship between children and private industry is increasingly important, complex and growing. Children come into contact with businesses, whether they like it or not. They assume the roles of consumers, family members of employees, young employees themselves, and members of communities and environments that accommodate or support private sector activities.

Children are important stakeholders for companies – as future employees and business elites as well as those affected by business activities and relations.

In China, millions of children are left at home on their own or with relatives while their parents work in the industrial centres throughout the entire year. Oftentimes, these children only see their parents during the Chinese New Year Holidays. Although other children have the opportunity to visit their parents during the summer break, they often end up at the production sites themselves or are locked into their parents’ rooms during the day.

This poses an immediate problem for the production plants but also for their customers.

By introducing child-friendly spaces in Chinese factories, our Child Rights and Business Hub in China (CCR CSR) takes an innovative approach to this problem for the benefit of children and their parents but also the employers