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.
Coalition Letter of Support for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act | Responsible Investment and the Labor Question | A More Sustainable Supply Chain | New Database Shows Almost Half of Countries Don’t Criminalize Slavery | Promoting Fair and Effective Labor Migration Policies in Agriculture and Rural Areas
Verité announces major new project to improve adherence to international labor standards in Mexican agriculture.
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.
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