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14 July 2020
Ethical Recruitment Remains Elusive in Global Supply Chains: Learnings From Verité’s Remote CUMULUS Forced Labor Screen™ Platform
Despite the growing awareness of, and commitments to, ethical recruitment, an analysis of CUMULUS data from early 2019 to the present reveals that less than five percent of employers fully absorb the true cost of cross border recruitment, including all recruitment fees and related costs. Instead, those costs continue to be passed on to foreign migrant workers.
Editorial
20 December 2023
Breakthrough on Historic EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
The European Union (EU) reached a historic deal on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EU CSDDD). For the first time, large companies and those in high-risk sectors will be required to implement risk management systems to address their adverse impacts on people, communities, and the environment if they wish to do business in the EU market.
Editorial
11 April 2025
Why Traditional Audits are not Sufficient for Human Rights Due Diligence
In today's complex global marketplace, many companies operate without a clear understanding of the human rights risks lurking within their supply chains. To better grasp the risks, companies often make use of traditional compliance audits - a process that is too often a simple checkbox (or tick-box) exercise. True risk management requires moving beyond traditional models to develop a concrete, nuanced understanding of how labor violations can emerge at every tier of production—from raw material extraction to final assembly.
Gold
Gold mining in Sub‑Saharan Africa is rife with trafficking and exploitation, driven by smuggling, hazardous labor, and unregulated operations. Africa supplies about half of the world’s gold, with Ghana leading exports, followed by Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Mali, Zimbabwe, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Uganda, and Senegal. While 75% of production comes from formal multinational mines, informal and...
Botswana
Diamond exports, while central to Botswana’s stability, mask deep labor vulnerabilities in the economy. Despite strong governance, two key sectors reveal trafficking risks. In livestock production, children from the San community are sent to remote cattle farms where they may face coercive and hazardous labor. The diamond sector, which accounts for about 25% of GDP...
For auditors
This section of Verité’s Fair Hiring Toolkit provides a tailored introduction to the materials for social auditors and certifiers. An overview of the most relevant tools and guidance is provided, with an explanation of how these tools can support their work.
Diamonds
Diamond extraction in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa is lucrative yet deeply entwined with trafficking and exploitation. Artisanal and informal mining in countries like Angola, Central African Republic, the DRC, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone has been linked to forced labor, child labor, and hazardous conditions such as collapses, chemical exposure, and starvation. Debt bondage is...
Copper
Rapid growth in Africa’s copper sector is shadowed by critical labor abuses and trafficking vulnerabilities. Key producing countries—including Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, South Africa, and Namibia—feature both large-scale commercial mines and expanding artisanal operations. Informal, small-scale mining feeds into opaquely aggregated supply chains, obscuring origin and complicating oversight....
Vanilla
Hand‑pollinated and highly labor‑intensive, vanilla cultivation in Madagascar and other parts of Sub‑Saharan Africa creates ripe conditions for exploitation. Madagascar alone produces around 80% of the world’s vanilla, mostly through smallholder farmers in the Sava region who rely on family labor during short, intensive harvest windows. The harvest and curing process involves frequent bean handling...
Track
Tracking progress is how a company can know if its human rights due diligence systems are working to improve conditions for people affected by its operations and supply chains.
