Verité News from our Vision Newsletter
Financial and Contractual Approaches to Mitigating Migrant Worker Recruitment-Related Risks
A growing number of multinational corporations and their suppliers have begun to adopt “Employer Pays” recruitment policies. The purpose of this white paper from Verité is to identify, map, and assess the impact and potential application of contract clauses, ethical recruitment bonds, and insurance policies for promoting sustained compliance with key migrant worker standards, while mitigating financial risk to employers.
Technical Working Group Meets for Ghana Forced Labor Indicators Project (FLIP)
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...
A Blueprint for Mobilizing Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking
There are reasons to believe that the risks of vulnerability to modern slavery and human trafficking are increasing due to major social, technological, and environmental changes. These include climate change, automation, conflict, and migration, which disrupt global labor markets, value-chains, and livelihoods. These disruptions make people more vulnerable to modern slavery and human trafficking.
What We’re Talking About in October
On-Demand Food and Beverage Sector Webinar | 2018 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor | Nepal and Malaysia Agree on New Rules to Protect Workers | Toolkit on Investor Responsibility | Migrant Workers Dying of Heat Stress in Qatar
Customs and Border Protection Issues Withhold Release Orders
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued five Withhold Release Orders covering five different products (http://bit.ly/2mEqvAp) on October 1, 2019. Their action demonstrates that forced labor is all too common across diverse sectors and geographies. To understand how...
Accountability Framework Initiative Call to Action
The time for ethical supply chains is now.
Leading NGOs call on companies to follow the Accountability Framework to end ecosystem destruction and human rights violations in the production, trade, and finance of beef, palm oil, pulp, timber, soy, and other commodities.
Complimentary Webinar: Combating Human Trafficking in Food and Beverage Supply Chains
Is human trafficking hidden in your food and beverage supply chain? This 45-minute event will offer companies in the food and beverage sector concrete strategies, tools, and processes to address and prevent human trafficking in their supply chains in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) “Ending Trafficking in Persons.”
What We’re Talking About in September
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 Wishes Senior Consultant Jacqui MacDonald a Warm Farewell
Fair trade and ethical business expert Jacqui MacDonald is stepping down from her long-time role as a Verité Senior Consultant. Throughout her distinguished career, Jacqui has been a passionate advocate for gender equity and the fair treatment of farmers within global economic systems.
Thank You, 2019 Summer Interns!
Over the summer, Verité welcomed eight interns to work on projects across multiple departments. Summer interns made meaningful contributions to our organization, from helping us integrate gender perspectives into our work to researching the role of labor brokers across sectors, in addition to other interesting and important work.
Verité in the News
Read coverage of Verité’s work in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, and more.
