Verité Global Summit 2018

Verité Global Summit 2018

Africa, Asia, Compensation and Hours, Diversity, Domestic Work, Europe, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Institutional Capacity, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Partnership, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Verité

The pace of work at Verité often means conversations across the Verité global network focus on the nuts and bolts of report writing, assessments, trainings, and tool development, among other projects. Rarely do we find the time to reflect on long-term approaches to tackling global labor abuses and considering our evolution as a global network to meet those challenges. This past April, thirty-four Verité partners paused in their day-to-day commitments to gather in Bangkok to share and strategize about the issues most critical to the Verité network’s goal of promoting fair, safe, and legal work.

Promoting Ethical Recruitment from Kenya to Qatar

Promoting Ethical Recruitment from Kenya to Qatar

Africa, Compensation and Hours, Construction, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Movement, Hospitality and Tourism, Middle East, Migrant Workers, Sub Saharan Africa, Worker Empowerment

As part of a multi-year project supported by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Verité and the International Organization for Migration are arranging a study tour and roundtable discussion in Qatar for a newly formed association called the Association of Skilled Migrant Worker Agencies of Kenya (ASMAK), which is made up of Kenyan private employment agents (PEAs) that are committed to ethical recruitment practices.