Fair labor, worldwide.

Verité’s vision is a world where people work under safe, fair, and legal conditions.

The workers who made your smartphone and harvested your coffee deserve safe, fair jobs. We partner with businesses, governments, and civil society organizations to create systems that put workers’ perspectives, rights, and experiences at the heart of decisions that affect their lives.

Our expertise

Our worker-centered approach guides three key expertise areas: advisory services, research, and advocacy.

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Business advisory services

Research and insight

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Worker agency and advocacy

What is human rights due diligence?

Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) transcends traditional checklists and audit cycles to build robust risk management systems. HRDD ensures businesses integrate worker perspectives and proactively identify and address potential harms throughout their operations and supply chains.

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Our priorities

We focus on the most severe labor and human rights harms that impact workers in global supply chains.

Focus areas

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Featured project

The Farm Labor Due Diligence Initiative

A Verité-led collaboration with companies and civil society organizations to define good practices and resources that help companies eliminate labor abuses from global agricultural supply chains through comprehensive due diligence.

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Featured project

Recruitment cost calculator

Verité’s Recruitment Cost Calculator provides up-to-date recruitment fee data, enabling companies to factor ethical hiring costs into contracts and eliminate worker-paid recruitment fees.

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Featured project

STREAMS: Supply Chain Tracing and Engagement Methodologies

Comprehensive guidance to help businesses implement traceability systems that strengthen labor rights due diligence to combat forced labor and child labor across global supply chains.

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Focus regions

Africa

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Americas

Asia

What makes us different

Here’s what makes our approach to labor and human rights work distinctive.

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Three decades of pioneering leadership

Our frameworks became industry standards because we've been solving these challenges since before "sustainability" was mainstream, giving us unmatched depth across sectors and regions.

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Our work is informed by workers’ voices

Our research, consulting, training, and policy work addresses real worker needs by centering their lived experiences and priorities in every initiative.

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Systems-thinking, not checkbox compliance

We help businesses move beyond audit fatigue to build sustainable practices. Our frameworks help businesses address root causes and drive lasting improvement.

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We bridge the gap between theory and practice

Worker interactions on the ground, in factories and fields, shape our corporate strategy discussions. Likewise, our business experience informs realistic policy recommendations that companies can implement and governments can enforce.

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Pragmatic solutions that scale

We design human rights due diligence programs that integrate into daily business operations. If it doesn't work in practice, it doesn't work for workers—so we create solutions that stick.

We engage people at every supply chain level

From brands and multinational buyers to local suppliers, governments to unions—we engage every level. Our global staff and network work directly with stakeholders worldwide to drive systemic change.