Verité
Key services
- Benchmarking and improvement of human rights policies, codes of conduct, and other Human Rights Due Diligence tools, in alignment with the Accountability Framework, the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, and other legislation
- Setting and tracking best-in-class human rights objectives, indicators, and targets
- Assessing human rights risks, identifying salient issues, and building action plans at enterprise, supply chain, and farm/field level to tackle those issues
- Customised training programs to enhance the human rights capabilities of sustainability teams, agricultural processing operations, agronomists, field-based staff, farmers, and workers
Profile
Verité is a mission-driven, fully non-profit, international labour rights NGO that specialises in providing technical assistance to companies, governments, and civil society organisations to drive progress on labour issues in global supply chains. Verité staff are recognised global experts on forced labour and human trafficking for labour exploitation, responsible recruitment of workers, child labour, freedom of association, and fair, safe, and healthy conditions of work.
Verité has pioneered approaches to human rights due diligence at scale, through initiatives like CUMULUS Forced Labor Screen™, a platform that maps cross-border labour supply chains using patented technology and screens operations and supply chains for forced labour indicators. CUMULUS is especially suited to sectors with migrant labour and high forced labour risk, such as palm oil.
The organisation has a wide portfolio of multinational corporate clients, with particular depth in the fast-moving consumer goods and food and beverage sectors, including in palm oil, cocoa, coffee, and other agricultural commodities. Verité has also been instrumental in developing the AFi’s guidance on human rights and is highly engaged in the work of the AFi Coalition.
