The Centre for Child Rights and Business helps companies address child rights risks, strengthen human rights due diligence (HRDD), and integrate child rights into ESG strategies and responsible business practices. We support businesses in meeting requirements under the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and other international HRDD frameworks, while strengthening supply chains and improving outcomes for children, young workers and families.
Our mission is to help companies understand and address their direct and indirect impacts on children, embedding child rights into core business operations, supply chain management and sustainability strategies to drive lasting change.
We provide specialised advisory services, research, risk assessments and practical guidance across industries, supply chain tiers and sourcing countries. Our expertise covers child labour prevention and remediation, young worker protection, and the wider impact of business on children and families.
Our services include child labour prevention and remediation (CLPR), multi-stakeholder Child Rights Action Hubs, child rights and human rights risk assessments, supply chain tools and guidance, support for young workers and other vulnerable groups, and family-friendly workplace programmes.
Our supply chain mapping and risk assessments help companies identify where child rights and human rights risks occur, including in lower-tier suppliers and complex supply chains. We translate findings into actionable strategies to strengthen HRDD, prevent harm and support effective, long-term remediation.
We work across major sourcing countries in Asia, with staff and projects in Europe, Africa, North America and South America, supporting companies and suppliers in diverse local contexts.
Explore our latest project updates and stories to discover how we help businesses address child rights risks and deliver measurable improvements for children, young workers and families.
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 over 60 staff delivering child rights and business services in over 30 countries. To date, we have supported 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 help businesses develop sustainable, practical solutions that deliver lasting, positive outcomes for children, young workers, parent workers and businesses. We support companies in identifying, preventing and addressing adverse impacts on children’s rights across their operations and supply chains, in line with human rights due diligence (HRDD) requirements, including the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), the EU Forced Labour Regulation (FLR) and international frameworks such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC).
With specialised expertise in child rights and responsible business, we take a holistic, outcome-driven approach that addresses the root causes of child rights risks while strengthening business practices and supply chain resilience. We work alongside companies to turn their commitments into meaningful action, supporting effective child labour prevention and remediation, the protection of young workers, and better outcomes for children and families.
The Centre for Child Rights and Business helps companies turn child rights commitments into measurable improvements for children, young workers, parent workers and businesses across global supply chains, including lower-tier suppliers and complex upstream settings.
Through on-the-ground child rights and human rights risk and impact assessments, we help companies understand where risks occur, who is affected and what action is needed. Our work has helped children leave child labour and access education, skills training and remediation support. Young workers have moved out of hazardous work into safer jobs with better working conditions, while parent workers have strengthened their parenting skills and benefited from more family-friendly workplaces.
We have also helped companies strengthen child rights policies, improve human rights due diligence (HRDD), build stronger supplier relationships and improve supply chain transparency. Through our Child Rights Action Hubs, accredited case managers and supplier capacity-building programmes, we help businesses address risks at their source, strengthen local systems and build more responsible, resilient supply chains.
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The Centre has been a great partner for Farbest to help strengthen our culture of putting our people first.
Since 2021, Under Armour has proudly partnered with The Centre to enhance the wellbeing of suppliers’ workers through the WeCare programme. The Centre has offered invaluable guidance over the years, overseeing the successful implementation of the program to address the practical needs of all parties. We are grateful for The Centre’s collaboration in reaching more beneficiaries, introducing new wellbeing activities, and expanding to new countries. We look forward to our continued collaboration.
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)
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