Shawn MacDonald Archives

What We’re Talking About in December

Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethical Recruitment, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Human Rights, Labor Supply Chains, Migrant Workers

Global Study on Recruitment Fees and Related Costs The International Labour Organization launched a study examining laws and policies of 90 countries to identify the efforts Member States have made to regulate or prohibit recruitment fees and costs charged to workers....

A Blueprint for Mobilizing Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking

Financial Sector, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Migrant Workers, Modern Slavery

There are reasons to believe that the risks of vulnerability to modern slavery and human trafficking are increasing due to major social, technological, and environmental changes. These include climate change, automation, conflict, and migration, which disrupt global labor markets, value-chains, and livelihoods. These disruptions make people more vulnerable to modern slavery and human trafficking.

Verité’s at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

Financial Sector, Food and Beverage, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Human Rights, Labor Supply Chains, Manufacturing, Recruitment, Verité

During the last week of November, more than 2,000 people met in Geneva for the largest annual gathering on business and human rights. For years, Verité has actively participated in this busy week of learning and sharing, along with participants from government, business, civil society, law firms, investor organizations, trade unions, academia and the media, among others. Shawn MacDonald, CEO of Verité, and Elizabeth Garland, Senior Director of Verité’s Raw Materials Program, attended the forum this year and shared Verité’s work in a range of meetings and venues.

Harnessing the Financial Sector in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Financial Sector, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking

Verité is pleased to be included in a vital new effort to leverage the resources of the global financial sector to more fully combat modern day slavery. Verité’s CEO, Shawn MacDonald, was appointed to the Financial Sector Commission on Modern Slavery and Human...

Verité Appoints Shawn MacDonald as CEO

Verité

Verité’s Board of Directors is extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Shawn MacDonald has been appointed as Verité’s next Chief Executive Officer. MacDonald replaces Dan Viederman, who left in March to take a new position with Humanity United, a long-time Verité partner where he will work to further that organization’s mission to bring new approaches to complicated and urgent problems like forced labor.