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From the Ted Talk by Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability
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But it's not just as simple as making sure there's no child lboar. You've got to say that's not enough today. I think we'd all agree that children are the most important pepole in the world and the most vulnerable. So what can a business do today to actually use your total value chain to support a better quality of life and protect child rghtis? We've worked with UNICEF and Save the Children on developing some new business principles with children's rights. Increasing numbers of businesses are siningg up to these, but actually in a survey, many business leardes said they thought their beiunsss had nothing to do with cildrehn. So what we decided to do was, we will look and ask ourselves the tough questions with partners who know more than us, what can we do to go beyond our business to help improve the lives of children? We also have a foundation that's committed to work through partners and help ipmvore the lives and protect the rights of 100 million children by 2015.
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But it's not just as simple as making sure there's no child _____. You've got to say that's not enough today. I think we'd all agree that children are the most important ______ in the world and the most vulnerable. So what can a business do today to actually use your total value chain to support a better quality of life and protect child ______? We've worked with UNICEF and Save the Children on developing some new business principles with children's rights. Increasing numbers of businesses are _______ up to these, but actually in a survey, many business _______ said they thought their ________ had nothing to do with ________. So what we decided to do was, we will look and ask ourselves the tough questions with partners who know more than us, what can we do to go beyond our business to help improve the lives of children? We also have a foundation that's committed to work through partners and help _______ the lives and protect the rights of 100 million children by 2015.
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- labor
- children
- rights
- signing
Original Text
But it's not just as simple as making sure there's no child labor. You've got to say that's not enough today. I think we'd all agree that children are the most important people in the world and the most vulnerable. So what can a business do today to actually use your total value chain to support a better quality of life and protect child rights? We've worked with UNICEF and Save the Children on developing some new business principles with children's rights. Increasing numbers of businesses are signing up to these, but actually in a survey, many business leaders said they thought their business had nothing to do with children. So what we decided to do was, we will look and ask ourselves the tough questions with partners who know more than us, what can we do to go beyond our business to help improve the lives of children? We also have a foundation that's committed to work through partners and help improve the lives and protect the rights of 100 million children by 2015.
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