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# Verité: Fair labor, worldwide\.

> Verité’s vision is a world where people work under safe, fair, and legal conditions\. The workers who made your smartphone and harvested your coffee deserve safe, fair jobs\. We partner with businesses, governments, and civil society organizations to create systems that put workers’ perspectives, rights, and experiences at the heart of decisions that affect their lives\.

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## Pages
- [Opportunities](https://verite.org/about-us/opportunities/): Join us in advancing fair labor practices and improving conditions for workers around the world\.
- [Priorities](https://verite.org/priorities/): Workers' needs and priorities guide our work and shape how we build safe, fair, and legal working conditions\. We focus our efforts on high\-risk sectors and regions where workers face the greatest challenges\.
- [Home](https://verite.org/)
- [Support us](https://verite.org/support-us/): Donate today and support our mission as we work towards a world where all people work under safe, fair, and legal conditions\.
- [Clients and partners](https://verite.org/about-us/clients-and-partners/): We've collaborated with 490\+ partners worldwide\. Here's a selection of organizations that have worked with us to advance fair labor\.

## Initiatives
- [Recruitment Cost Calculator](https://verite.org/initiative/recruitment-cost-calculator/): Verité 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\.
- [Example Initiative: Multi\-page child two](https://verite.org/initiative/example-initiative-multi-page-child-two/)
- [Example Initiative: Multi\-page child](https://verite.org/initiative/example-initiative-multi-page-child/)
- [Senderos](https://verite.org/initiative/senderos/): Supporting companies in improving labor practices in Mexico’s agriculture sector while empowering farmworkers with knowledge of their rights and access to grievance mechanisms\.
- [Responding to Child Labor and Forced Labor in U\.S\. Manufacturing](https://verite.org/initiative/responding-to-us-clfl/): This free e\-learning course provides an overview for U\.S\. manufacturing companies to identify, address, and prevent cases of child labor and forced labor\.

## News
- [Letter from our CEO Shawn MacDonald](https://verite.org/news/shawn-macdonald-letter-2025/): Letter from our CEO Shawn MacDonald
- [Coalition Corner \- The Latest on Advocacy Advancements](https://verite.org/news/coalition-corner-the-latest-on-advocacy-advancements/): Working through coalitions is an indispensable part of Verité’s advocacy efforts to influence policy changes that uplift and safeguard the rights and well\-being of workers worldwide\. Today, Verité’s coalition work involves bringing expertise and knowledge on supply chains and labor rights to the policy arena so that public policy is informed and ultimately enforceable\. The following resources and news highlight the latest advancements with our coalition partners\.
- [Private Kenyan Employment Agencies Learn About Promoting Ethical Recruitment in Qatar](https://verite.org/news/kenyan-peas-qatar/)
- [Remediation and Elimination of Recruitment Costs Charged to Migrant Workers](https://verite.org/news/remediation-of-recruitment-costs/): Migrant workers are frequently confronted with a choice: pay illegal or unethical recruitment fees for employment abroad or go without work altogether\. To finance these exorbitant costs, they may take out loans that leave them vulnerable to debt bondage, a form of forced labor\. For more than a decade, Verité has worked with global companies in diverse sectors to ensure their suppliers and business partners absorb the true cost of recruitment and prohibit the charging of recruitment costs to workers, in accordance with international standards and regulations\.
- [Mechanization of Thai Purse Seiners: A business case study to improve working and living conditions](https://verite.org/news/mechanization-of-thai-purse-seiners/): International exposés of labor conditions on Thai fishing vessels have long identified a vessel’s physical structure as an inherent driver of labor risk in the industry\. These findings led Nestlé and Verité to collaborate on a project exploring how Thai fishing vessels might be modified to enable long\-term improvements for both the workers and vessel owners\.

## People
- [Katherine Ko](https://verite.org/our-people/katherine-ko/)
- [Debbie Zeidenberg](https://verite.org/our-people/debbie-zeidenberg/)
- [WJ Yao](https://verite.org/our-people/wj-yao/)
- [Georgina Vázquez De Los Reyes](https://verite.org/our-people/georgina-vazquez-de-los-reyes/)
- [Michael Vaudreuil](https://verite.org/our-people/michael-vaudreuil/)

## Resources
- [White Paper on Innovating Farm Labor Management for U\.S\. and Mexican Agricultural Supply Chains](https://verite.org/resource/white-paper-on-innovating-farm-labor-management-for-u-s-and-mexican-agricultural-supply-chains/): This white paper tackles a critical question for the agriculture industry: How can farmers meet 21st\-century challenges head on and improve productivity and profitability by engaging with farmworkers?
- [Introduction to Forced Labor](https://verite.org/resource/introduction-to-forced-labor/): This introductory course provides a clear understanding of forced labor—what it is, how widespread it is globally, and the role of international standards in shaping the global response\.
- [A Brief Guide to Ethical Recruitment  for the Palm Oil Sector](https://verite.org/resource/a-brief-guide-to-ethical-recruitment-for-the-palm-oil-sector/)
- [Managing Ethical Recruitment from East Africa to the Gulf States](https://verite.org/resource/managing-ethical-recruitment-from-east-africa-to-the-gulf-states/)
- [Review of the Nestlé Palm Oil Upstream Supply Chain Management Program in Malaysia and Indonesia](https://verite.org/resource/review-of-the-nestle-palm-oil-upstream-supply-chain-management-program-in-malaysia-and-indonesia/)

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