From June-August 2011, over 400 young people ages 7–17, participated in consultations to discuss the Children’s Rights and Business Principles Initiative. They explored: what is business; how does business affect our lives and rights; what role does business have to protect our rights; and more. They also reviewed the ‘draft Principles’ and gave their detailed recommendations. Save the Children, Plan International, UNICEF and other partner organizations supported consultations in nine countries: Brazil, Argentina, Philippines, Zambia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Senegal, Paraguay and Peru. Participants included children with disabilities, minority ethnic and language groups, indigenous children, orphaned
children or children without appropriate parental care, children living below the national poverty line, children displaced by natural disaster or conflict, religious minorities and children in exploitative forms of work (e.g., street children, children on the move, former child soldiers) and representatives of working children. This document is a summary that pulls together the input received from children across the different consultations
