seafood Archives

What We’re Talking About in August 2021

Compensation and Hours, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Labor Supply Chains, Migrant Workers, Seafood

Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President, Dies at Age 72. From aflcio.org: “Trumka was the nation’s clearest voice on the critical need to ensure that all workers have a good job and the power to determine their wages and working conditions.” U.S. Black Women...

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.

Verité Influences Major New Federal Policy on Human Trafficking; Announces Release of Research Series on Commodities and Forced Labor

Agriculture, Asia, Extractives, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Latin America, North America, Seafood, South Asia, Southeast Asia

At a special session today of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, President Obama announced several new Administration policies to fight human trafficking. One of these, an Executive Order Strengthening Protections in Federal Contracts, ensures that goods purchased by the U.S. Government—the largest single purchaser of goods and services in the world—are not tainted by trafficking via exploitative labor recruitment practices at any point in the production and supply chain. The Executive Order will apply to all federal contractors and subcontractors—both in the US and worldwide—and provides federal agencies with additional tools to foster compliance.