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Advancing Worker Participation

Enhancing supplier management systems and building the capacity of both workers and managers, empowering workers to take an active role in workplace decision-making.

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Business advisory services

Companies with complex supply chains partner with us to address their most challenging labor and human rights risks.

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Help Wanted

Exposing how exploitative recruitment practices lead to forced labor and offers practical tools for governments, brands, and civil society to promote ethical recruitment and fair employment.

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Trafficking Risk in Sub-Saharan African Supply Chains

Explores trafficking risks in sub-Saharan Africa’s export industries, with reports and practical tools to help companies identify, prevent, and respond to trafficking in global supply chains.

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Responsible Sourcing Tool

A free, open-source web platform that helps companies and stakeholders visualize and understand forced-labor and human-trafficking risks in global supply chains.

Responsible sourcing tool
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Recruitment Cost Calculator

Verité's Recruitment Cost Calculator (RCC) provides accurate and up-to-date information on recruitment fees and related costs, enabling employers to enact ethical recruitment policies more effectively in their supply chains.

Research report 2017
Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal and Corporate Supply Chains: Research on Risk in 43 Commodities Worldwide

A comprehensive overview of labor rights risks across global commodity supply chains, drawing lessons from field research in high-risk sectors. This compilation brings together Verité’s research on labor and human rights issues across multiple global commodities, highlighting the common patterns of exploitation that link sectors from agriculture to manufacturing. It maps systemic drivers—such as recruitment...

Research report 2015
Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal and Corporate Supply Chains

Guidance for U.S. federal contractors and agencies on preventing human trafficking and forced labor in government procurement and supply chains. This white paper outlines practical steps for implementing Executive Order 13627, which prohibits trafficking-related activities in federal contracts. It explains compliance requirements for contractors—such as due diligence, reporting mechanisms, and recruitment fee restrictions—and provides tools...

Verité Resources
Research report 2014
Forced Labor in the Production of Electronic Goods in Malaysia

A study documenting the scale and nature of forced labor in Malaysia’s electronics industry, revealing how recruitment debt and policy gaps trap migrant workers. This comprehensive study found that nearly one in three foreign workers in Malaysia’s electronics sector is subjected to forced labor. It details how excessive recruitment fees, passport confiscation, restricted movement, and...

Forced labor in the production of electronic goods in Malaysia
Research report 2017
Risk Analysis of Labor Violations Among Farmworkers in the Guatemalan Sugar Sector

An in-depth study exposing systemic labor abuses in Guatemala’s sugar industry, highlighting the exploitation of vulnerable workers across plantations. This report investigates widespread risks of labor violations in Guatemala’s sugarcane sector, one of the world’s top sugar exporters. Drawing on field interviews and expert consultations, it identifies indicators of forced labor, human trafficking, and child...