Ensuring Government Advisors Comprehensively Understand Forced Labor in Côte d’Ivoire

Ensuring Government Advisors Comprehensively Understand Forced Labor in Côte d’Ivoire

On July 19, Verité and the International Cocoa Initiative kicked off a forced labor indicators training for human rights advisors of the National Council of Human Rights (Conseil Nacional des Droits de l’Homme— CNDH), an independent body that is tasked with ensuring the Côte d’Ivoire government’s adherence to all international treaties and cooperation agreements that the government has signed.

Verité’s New Approaches to Fighting Abuse of Indian Workers in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Verité’s New Approaches to Fighting Abuse of Indian Workers in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Through generous funding by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), Verité is continuing to support workers navigating risks in new labor markets between Uttar Pradesh, India and the Gulf States. This project focuses on building capacities of partners to provide guidance to workers during the recruitment process in Uttar Pradesh, and to safely navigate systems for addressing any exploitation they may encounter during employment in the Gulf.