This month, the second annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights met to consider the impact of the business sector on children, addressing both the duty of governments to protect and the responsibility of business to respect children's rights. The impact of the business sector on human rights, and children's rights in particular, has grown over the past decades, owing in large part to the increasingly globalised nature of business, and continued outsourcing and privatising of government functions. It has also led to the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 (UN Principles), and the development of the Children's Rights and Business Principles a year later, led by Unicef.
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