Verite

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Verité is a global NGO that ensures people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal conditions. By illuminating problems, identifying solutions, implementing changes and documenting impacts, Verite leverages international businesses in order to improve the income, security and freedom of workers around the world.

Verite is a solutions-oriented partner for all institutions that are committed to supporting fair and humane work within workplaces, supply chains and policy level. Verite helps others understand the systemic roots of slavery and child labor. They study and work on the complicated systems that make workers especially vulnerable.


From the Verite blog

Rethinking business: conversation at the World Economic Forum

Date:  Wed, 05/09/2012 Rethinking the Role of Business Panelists: Carlos Labarthe, Executive President and Co-Founder Compartamos Daniel Viederman, CEO, Verite Vineet Nayar, CEO, Vice Chairman and fulltime member of the...

Will it be different this time?

Date:  Thu, 03/15/2012 copied from Reuters which was kind enough to publish this Op-Ed. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/02/29/how-apple-and-everyone-... Every few years brings us another sweatshop offender. In the 1990s it...

Good interview on NPR

Date:  Thu, 03/15/2012 You can't choose the titles, but this interview allowed me a chance to discuss the complexity of global supply chains, and the challenges of knowing whether a company is 'good' or 'bad.' I appreciate having the...

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Verite endeavors to change business for the benefit of vulnerable workers at the base of every supply chain.


Headquarters Amherst, Massachusetts

Founded 1995

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