Name of Resource | The Children’s Rights and Business Atlas |
Type | Score / Measurement / Metric, Knowledge/information hub |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | United Nation Children’s Fund |
Initiative launch date | 2009 |
Description | The Children’s Rights and Business Atlas helps businesses and industries assess potential and actual impacts on the lives of children and guides the integration of children’s rights into due diligence practices and procedures. Using publicly available country data and industry analysis, and practical due diligence tools and guidance, the Children’s Rights and Business Atlas equips businesses with insights needed to assess and manage their impact on the rights of children in the workplace, marketplace and community and environment – and target due diligence approaches. |
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Name of Resource | UNICEF’s Child Rights and Mining Toolkit. Best practices for addressing children’s issues in large-scale mining |
Type | Report / analysis |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | United Nations Children's Fund |
Initiative launch date | January 2017 |
Description | The Toolkit is designed to assist any of those in the mining sector who are responsible for designing and implementing strategies related to social and environmental performance at the project level. It provides 10 concise tools for improving social and environmental performance towards respecting and advancing children’s rights. Tool 1 Impact Assessment and Tool 2 Stakeholder Engagement provide cross-cutting guidance that can be applied to any of the other areas. Each tool can be used independently for specific purposes, according to the company’s needs and circumstances. Toolkit supplements existing guidance, handbooks and standards. It provides additional information tailored to mining companies, in reference to the resources that are highlighted in each tool. The issues related to supply chains are being discussed in the chapter on working conditions in the supply chain and management of on-site contractors and chapter on protecting children from sexual violence. |
Availability | ENG: https://www.unicef.org/csr/files/FINAL_Child_Rights_and_Mining_Toolkit_060217.pdf |
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Name of Resource | Child Rights and Security Checklist |
Type | Analysis tool |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | United Nations Children’s Fund, Government of Canada, Barrick Gold |
Initiative launch date | 19 April 2017 |
Description | The checklist identifies 14 criteria for companies and governments to assess the extent to which their security frameworks are attentive to and protective of children’s rights. The checklist indicates whether each criterion is applicable to companies, governments, or both, and includes references to resources that assist users in gaining a fuller understanding of the relevant issues and norms. The checklist can be used in a variety of situations. It may be completed on a standalone basis, or the content may be incorporated into other Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights-related risk assessments or security and human rights audits. It also may be used in conjunction with other tools to assess children’s rights and VPs implementation, such as the UNICEF publication “Child Rights and Mining Toolkit. Best practices for addressing children’s issues in large-scale mining”. |
Availability | ENG, FRA, SPA: https://www.unicef.org/csr/extractives_resources.html |