Child Labor Archives

Senderos (Pathways) Project

Agriculture, Central America, Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Human Rights, raw materials, Worker Empowerment

Verité is excited to launch a major new program in Mexico to promote and protect labor rights more effectively in the sugarcane sector. SENDEROS will combine intensive rights training and grievance mechanisms for workers with closely coordinated efforts with both the Mexican government and the private sector to create a new approach to labor rights enforcement in a sector that has long experienced poor working conditions.

Major New Project to Improve Adherence to International Labor Standards in Mexican Agriculture

Agriculture, Central America, Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Human Rights, raw materials, Verité, Worker Empowerment

Verité announces major new project to improve adherence to international labor standards in Mexican agriculture.

2019: A Year of Impact, Achievement, and Optimism

Africa, Agriculture, Apparel, Asia, Central America, Child Labor, Civil Society, Compensation and Hours, Corporate Social Responsibility, Financial Sector, Food and Beverage, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Human Rights, Labor Supply Chains, Latin America, Living Wages, Manufacturing, Middle East, Migrant Workers, Modern Slavery, Partnership, raw materials, Recruitment, Seafood, South America, Southeast Asia, Technology, Verité, Worker Empowerment

While we are humbled by the great deal more we need to accomplish, we are proud of what we have been able to achieve this past year. Please join us in a review of selected notable projects from 2019.

What We’re Talking About in December

Child Labor, Compensation and Hours, Extractives, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Modern Slavery

New Estimates of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains | Modern Slavery is a Problem that Companies Cannot Ignore | Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy’s Exploitation | World’s Largest Fund Drops G4S Over Modern Slavery Fears | And More

Technical Working Group Meets for Ghana Forced Labor Indicators Project (FLIP)

Africa, Agriculture, Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, raw materials

Verité is currently implementing a U.S. Department of Labor-funded project focused on growing government, private sector, and civil society capacity to combat forced labor of adults and children through advancing the ILO forced labor indicators approach in Ghana. Led...