The conference brought together researchers, practitioners, policy makers and child advocates from across the world to share and discuss the latest child indicator research and implications for policy and interventions. The conference focused on children's subjective well-being and inequalities, public and social policies, and children's rights and vulnerabilities.
Andrea participated in the session on the rights of children and adolescents, where she presented her research on Business, human rights and child labour in India's cotton industry. She focused her presentation on the challenges of developing child labour indicators to analyze business employment practices consistent with national laws and international human rights standards. In addition, she talked about the cotton supply chain from farm to fabric to fashion and the work needed to disclose child labour due diligence systems.
The International Society for Child Indicators, established in 2006, publishes the journal Child Indicators Research. In addition, ISCI researchers developed the Children's Worlds Survey, a worldwide research survey on children's subjective well-being to improve children's lives and support cross-national comparative work.