Addressing Forced Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Cote D’Ivoire

New Research Addressing Forced Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Côte D’Ivoire Verité is pleased to release a new independent research study on the nature and indicators of forced labor and human trafficking for labor exploitation in the cocoa sector in Côte...
Responsible Recruitment

Responsible Recruitment

Verité performs research and develops tools, guidance and approaches to support responsible recruitment and hiring.

Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services

We ended 2015 with nine posts on the issue of modern slavery in the coffeelands—this eight-part series on our research into wretched labor conditions on a small number of Brazilian coffee estates and this reflection on how that work is inspired by our mission to serve the poorest and most vulnerable people. Those posts were rather narrow in focus—one country, one specific category of labor abuse. An article we contributed to the current issue of Roast Magazine titled “Farmworkers in Coffee: Improving Conditions for the Industry’s Most Vulnerable Players” is wider in scope—it surveys the broader context of farm labor in coffee that we are working to address through our research, writing and programming.

Skoll

Skoll

For the last two years, Verité has been meeting with migrant workers in the electronics sector in Malaysia to understand their experiences. Our findings shocked us – one in three of the hundreds of thousands of migrants working in Malaysian electronics manufacturing is in a condition of forced labor. These Burmese, Nepalis, Indians, Bangladeshis, Vietnamese, Thais, Indonesians and Filipinos work in modern factories. But because they are foreigners they are often employed by third-party labor agents rather than the factories themselves.