The ALDI SOUTH Group achieved a 9/10 rating, sitting in the top ten of the more than 1,800 evaluated companies, and second among food retailers. This is the third straight year in which ALDI has been listed as a Leader in the benchmark.
The ALDI SOUTH Group’s latest ranking underlines our commitment to addressing children’s rights issues in the workplace and the wider community. ALDI was also named a Leader in the The State of Children’s Rights & Business Benchmark in both 2022 and 2023, with ratings of 7.6 and 8.2 out of 10, respectively.
The Global Child Forum, a Swedish non-profit foundation, recognised the ALDI SOUTH Group’s record in developing and implementing policies and practices that address the company’s impact on children’s rights.
At the ALDI SOUTH Group, we are committed to fulfilling our responsibility to respect human rights, in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), and as laid out in our Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Policy and Business Partner Sustainability Standards. This commitment includes respecting the rights of all children, and a non-tolerance for child labour in our supply chains, as further laid out in our Child Labour Policy.
In 2021, we signed a joint pledge alongside industry peers and our partner The Centre for Child Rights and Business to support the UN’s International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour and to emphasise the importance of eliminating child labour.
The Global Child Forum convenes global leaders across sectors to drive social change for children's rights. With a focus on engaging businesses as change agents, they align their work with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Children's Rights and Business Principles.
The Global Child Forum bases its benchmark scores on a company’s publicly available information, systematically assessing a corporate’s response to impacts on children’s rights. Scores are not a measure of actual compliance with policies, outcomes of policies and/or programmes, nor should scores be construed as investment advice.
Read more about the methodology here.
