The Centre for Child Rights and Business helps companies navigate child rights, ESG, and human rights due diligence, ensuring compliance with the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and other key HRDD frameworks. Our work enables businesses to strengthen their supply chains while delivering meaningful, lasting improvements for children, youth and families.
Our mission is to help companies understand and enhance their direct and indirect impact on children – and to support them in embedding child rights into their core business practices and sustainability strategies to drive long-term, meaningful change.
We provide specialised services, research, and insights across multiple industries, supply chain tiers and countries, covering a broad range of child rights and business challenges.
Our services cover the development of tools and guidance to support responsible business practices, child labour prevention and remediation (including multi-stakeholder programmes like our Child Rights Action Hubs), child rights and human rights risk assessments, support packages for young workers and other vulnerable groups, and services to create family-friendly workplaces in supply chains.
Our supply chain mapping and risk assessments provide companies with a clear understanding of where and how their operations impact child rights and human rights, along with actionable strategies to manage risks.
We work in major sourcing countries across Asia, with staff and projects also located in Europe, Africa, North and South America.
Explore our latest project updates and stories to learn more about our work and impact.
The Centre for Child Rights and Business was founded by Rädda Barnen AB and officially began operating in China in 2010 as a social enterprise with the mission to work with businesses to improve the lives of children affected by their operations. Our original name was the Center for Child Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility (CCR CSR), with a small team of child rights experts and staff based in Beijing.
Since then, we’ve grown into a global team of close to 60 staff delivering child rights and business services in over 30 countries. To date, we have supported to over 100 companies and thousands of suppliers across a range of business sectors. As of January 2021, we changed our name to The Centre for Child Rights and Business (shortened version ‘The Centre’). Read our FAQ to learn more about this change.
Our goal is to provide businesses with sustainable solutions that create lasting, positive change for children, young workers, parent workers and the businesses themselves. We strive to help companies identify, prevent, and mitigate adverse impacts of their operations on children’s rights, in line with human rights due diligence regulations including the EU CSDDD and global child rights frameworks like the UN CRC.
With deep expertise in both the challenges and opportunities of addressing child rights, we take a holistic, outcome-driven approach that benefits everyone. We believe businesses can be a powerful force for good, and we are committed to supporting them every step of the way.
Our work has positively impacted thousands of children, parent workers and young workers. Each year, we help companies identify, address and prevent child rights risks in global supply chains. This includes child labour remediation through our network of in-country accredited child labour case managers and community-driven Child Rights Action Hubs, which create brighter futures for children and their families.
At the same time, businesses that partner with us gain tangible benefits, including stronger human rights due diligence, better risk management and compliance, and reduced child labour risks. Our support also helps improve workforce stability and satisfaction, recruitment and retention, and supply chain resilience. Additionally, we help companies minimise regulatory and legal exposure, strengthen capacity and knowledge among supply chain partners, and enhance corporate reputation among customers and stakeholders.
Read more about our impact here.
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To date, we have The Centre’s service to highly professional, reliable and efficient, with The Centre always on standby to help gather time-sensitive information, draw up tailored remediation programmes and implement them from start to finish.
(Date: 2021)
－ASOS
Joining the Working Group complements some of our most significant initiatives within MTP, including our work with village representatives, our staff, and contractors about child’s rights and implementing policies surrounding the protection of vulnerable children in the communities where we operate.
－Phonesavanh Chindamany, Sustainability Manager at Mekong Timber Plantations, Mekong Timber Plantations
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