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Verité Welcomes New Chief Operating Officer Global operations, technology and program expansion an increasing focus for fair labor and corporate responsibility NGO Amherst, Mass. – Verité, the global NGO based in Amherst,... |
Read More | February 8, 2010 |
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Hundreds “Walk for Farmworker Justice” in Lakeland, FL, Call on Publix to Join Solution to Human Rights Crisis in Florida's Tomato Fields LAKELAND, Fla. -Busloads of farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – an internationally-recognized human rights organization based in Immokalee, FL – and hundreds of allies from... |
Read More | January 29, 2010 |
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Presidential Proclamation - National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month The United States was founded on the principle that all people are born with an unalienable right to freedom -- an ideal that has driven the engine of American progress throughout our history. As... |
Read More | January 8, 2010 |
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Verité Partner for the Implementation and Monitoring of the Historic 'Fair Food' Program Verité Will Ensure That Farm Workers Receive “Penny-Per-Pound” Raise and Improved Working Conditions Promised By Major Food Corporations |
Read More | February 8, 2010 |
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Honoring a Great Advocate of Workers' Rights Verité mourns the loss of Neil Kearney, who is rightfully celebrated as a uniquely effective advocate for workers. We appreciated Neil for his single-minded focus and passionate public... |
Read More | November 20, 2009 |
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Verité and CREA Release Social Auditor Standards After more than a year of research, public consultation and dialogue, Verité and CREA are releasing the Standards for the Knowledge and Skills of Social Auditors, which define the knowledge... |
Read More | February 8, 2010 |
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Combating Global Challenges: Dispatches from the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative An ebullient love-fest of corporations, philanthropists, (“rich guys" according to Ted Turner), NGOs big and small, CEOs, celebrities, politicians, world leaders, and academic... |
Read More | October 7, 2009 |
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President Clinton Announces Verité and ASSET’s Commitment to Address Human Trafficking and Forced Labor at Clinton Global Initiative Verité, the global NGO, together with the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET), announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative a commitment aimed at stemming forced labor... |
Read More | February 8, 2010 |
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A Model Trade Union: Once Katie Ford and her family ran the world’s most famous modeling agency. Now she’s rallying to fight human trafficking The scene one recent summer evening in a third-floor conference room at the Standard Hotel in New York City seemed like the usual: stylish people drinking white wine, ignoring expansive views of... |
Read More | September 14, 2009 |
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The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today Kevin Bales, a leader in the abolition movement to end modern-day slavery estimates some 27 million people labor as slaves today—more than at any time in history. ... |
Read More | September 10, 2009 |
