2008-05-19 China Daily
Editor's note: Under the agreement between the Swedish and Chinese governments on corporate social responsibility (CSR) cooperation, a CSR Child Rights Competence Center will be inaugurated in Beijing in September.
The center is a collaboration between the Swedish government and Save the Children Sweden in China. Save the Children is a non-governmental organization engaged in protecting children's rights and improving their lives internationally.
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, secretary-general of the International Save the Children Alliance, and Henrik Holmquisk, Strategic Alliances of Save the Children Sweden, spoke with China Business Weekly reporter Liu Jie about the center's mission, functions and goals during their recent visit to Beijing.
Q: The CSR Child Rights Competence Center is to be officially set up in Beijing this September, would you like to tell us the reasons behind the establishment of the center and its goals?
Gornitzka: Save the Children believes strongly that corporations together with others can improve children's lives directly or maybe more indirectly in their businesses. 我们So far, companies are increasingly interested in CSR. The Swedish government has signed an agreement with the Chinese government regarding CSR, and what that means is that the Swedish government will support Chinese companies to develop their CSR work.
The most debated or discussed issue within the CSR context today is environment, especially climate change. And that is good, it's important. But what we, Save the Children and the new center, want to do is to take part by offering companies knowledge about children's rights and how they can work with children's rights within their CSR work.
So the purpose of the competence center is to provide knowledge the corporation can use when they develop CSR to bring in children's issues alongside with other CSR issues.
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