Seafood Archives

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 November

Construction, Financial Sector, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Labor Supply Chains, Seafood, Southeast Asia, Trafficking in Persons Report

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Trafficking in Persons | Investor Snapshot: Forced Labor in the Construction Sector | Engineering and Construction Companies Release Guidance Notes for Worker Welfare | Better Labor Inspections in Thai Fishing Sector

What We’re Talking About in September

Africa, Apparel, Gender Discrimination, Human Rights, Recruitment, Seafood

Groundbreaking Agreement to Combat Sexual Harassment at a Major Garment Supplier | A First Look at Employers Using the J-1 Summer Work Travel Visa | The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina

Verité Paper Explores Challenges in Formal and Informal Labor Migration to Thailand

Agriculture, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Human Rights, Manufacturing, Migrant Workers, Seafood, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized

Verité conducted desk and field research to map out how jobseekers in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Lao PDR learn about jobs in Thailand, weigh risk factors and choose among the routes open to them. Through interviews with people on or connected with this journey, a picture emerged of a highly complex arena in which the needs of jobseekers, job-finders, employers, regulators, facilitators, and profiteers meet.

Verité Addresses Gender Inequity & Forced Labor in the Seafood Sector

Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Gender Discrimination, Gender Equality, Labor Supply Chains, Migrant Workers, Seafood

Seafood supply chains are complex and rife with vulnerability to human trafficking risks and other labor problems (see infographic below). This past March, Verité attended Seafood Expo North America in Boston, speaking on panels about gender equality and social responsibility in supply chains.