Asia

Migrant workers in Taiwan’s manufacturing sector play a critical role in sustaining its export-driven economy, but face challenges such as high recruitment fees, limited grievance mechanisms, and excessive overtime.

Our Taiwan-based work includes conducting labor risk assessments in manufacturing and fishing sectors, training management and recruiters on migrant worker protections, and partnering with major global brands on forced labor screening.

Malaysia heavily relies on migrant workers who face heightened risks of systemic forced labor, debt bondage, passport confiscation, and labor abuse, prompting significant international scrutiny and trade restrictions.

Our groundbreaking forced labor investigations in electronics catalyzed industry-wide “no fee recruitment” standards. We partner with major global brands on forced labor screening and provide our Recruitment Cost Calculator to help companies operating in Malaysia identify and prevent unethical migrant recruitment practices that increase forced labor risks.

Thailand’s migrant workers face persistent risks of forced labor, debt bondage, and passport confiscation in high-risk sectors.

Verité’s work in Thailand includes research on improving working and living conditions on Thai purse seiner vessels and focused investigations on recruitment practices, human trafficking risks, and migrant labor conditions in shrimp farms, fish ports, and fishing boats as well as in the garment and electronic sectors.

Across Indonesia’s export sectors, labor rights concerns are widespread, including child labor, hazardous working conditions, and limited enforcement of labor protections.

Our work in Indonesia includes research and capacity-building to manage human rights risks in extended palm oil supply chains and forced labor research in the fishing sector. Verité’s Recruitment Cost Calculator provides accurate costs for recruiting Indonesian migrant workers to Malaysia’s manufacturing and construction industries.

Workers in Vietnam’s high-risk sectors often face low wages, excessive overtime, and weak enforcement of occupational health and safety standards.

We provide comprehensive workplace assessments and ongoing supplier improvement programs in Vietnam that strengthen human rights due diligence, ethical recruitment practices, and labor risk prevention.

India has the highest number of people living in modern slavery globally, estimated at over 11 million (2023 Global Slavery Index).

We bring decades of experience in workplace audits and labor rights research across diverse sectors in India. Our work includes combating forced labor in recruitment, strengthening worker-led organizations to address debt bondage, and piloting innovative traceability technologies in cotton supply chains for stronger labor rights due diligence.

Despite Japan’s recent labor reforms, foreign migrant workers continue facing labor rights violation risks, including unpaid wages, excessive hours, inadequate grievance access, and unsafe working conditions.

Our work strengthens foreign migrant workers’ rights and capabilities when they face inadequate social protections, workplace violations, and unsafe conditions. We provide educational training resources, advisory services on ethical recruitment practices, and stakeholder engagement to improve migrant worker protections.

Widespread informal work in garment, construction, and agriculture sectors, combined with Bangladeshi migrant workers facing forced labor situations abroad, creates compounding vulnerabilities and limited worker protections.

Verité conducts factory assessments and worker trainings in Bangladesh while researching debt bondage risks facing Bangladeshi migrant workers. We help employers combat unethical recruitment through our Recruitment Cost Calculator and support worker-led organizations with evidence-based advocacy initiatives.