HELP WANTED:

Hiring, Human Trafficking and Slavery in the Global Economy

Reports available for download:

• Summary Report
• Indian Workers in Domestic Textile Production and Middle East-Based Manufacturing, Infrastructure, and Construction
• Vulnerability to Broker-Related Forced Labor among Migrant Workers in Information Technology Manufacturing in Taiwan and Malaysia
• Immigrant Workers in US Agriculture: The Role of Labor Brokers in Vulnerability to Forced Labor

We also launched a website to help direct the many stakeholder groups with the questions needed to ask and steps needed to take in order to eradicate forced labor and slavery in supply chains around the world. Verite’s HELP WANTED report and website offer the key questions needed to be asked by anyone who is connected to migrant workers and global supply chains.

Verité Works

Verité Works profiles our initiatives to improve workplace conditions around the world. Each of three issues per year offers an in-depth look at a particular effort on the ground, including successes, challenges and reflections for future work. Verité Works aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion around the best practices and approaches for ensuring that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal conditions.

The Verité Update features different programs, initiatives and updates from Executive Director Dan Viederman.

The ASK-Verité ICT Newsletter is a periodic platform created for discussion and highlighting recent labor, social, and environmental developments in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. It provides information about the developments taking place in the ICT sector in India, and also offers insight into recent social responsibility initiatives undertaken by a variety of stakeholders on a global scale.

We conduct specialized research for manufacturers, investors (both public and private, focusing on the social investment community), NGOs in the US and abroad, and trade unions on topics related to labor conditions and worker rights.

State of the Working World

Coming soon! This annual report will be a culmination of extensive research about labor rights and its progress around the world. It will serve all audiences who have an interest in how our products are made and what can and should be done to improve those conditions.