GLOBAL CHILD FORUM

Global Child Forum is an independent, global multi-stakeholder platform for informed dialogue and thought leadership on how to advance children’s rights in support of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Global Child Forum aims at gathering leaders from business, governments, academia and civil society in a joint effort to implement children’s rights. This multi-stakeholder approach should be supported by effective information sharing, exposing leading case studies and learning ... from best practice from all parts of the world. Global Child Forum is best known for its annual leaders summit at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting brings together some 400 leaders from large and small international corporations, financial institutions, the UN and NGOs, government representatives, academia, selected experts and journalists, to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing children of the world. The objective is to expose best practice and examples, new innovative ways of implementing and scaling up successful methods of multi-stakeholder cooperation leading to action and tangible results for children. The Global Child Forum also convenes a regional, thematic and/or industry specific Satellite Forum each year in Latin America, Africa, Middle East or Asia. In addition to being a global platform for dialogue and action, the Global Child Forum initiates, coordinates and produces studies and analysis. We also engage our Partner, Academic and Expert Networks in sector specific initiatives related to children’s rights. The Global Child Forum Web Portal is an online interactive platform for sharing information, inspiration, best practice and knowledge on important children’s rights issues, supported in part by Swedish Post Code Foundation. Global Child Forum was initiated by H.M. the King and H.M. the Queen of Sweden in 2009. The Global Child Forum is a Swedish non-profit foundation with headquarters in Stockholm.More