Verité is an independent, non-profit social auditing and research organisation.Their mission is to ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal working conditions. Where Verité auditors identify exploitation of workers or health and safety violations in the workplace, they develop concrete steps to correct them through a combination of trainings for management and workers, education programmes and remediation programmes.
Verité’s work includes:
- factory audits for compliance with international standards and corporate codes of conduct
- research into key questions related to work place human rights on globale supply chains
- evaluations of supply chain and human rights-realted rsisk for multinational corporationsa nd investors
- capcity building for governments, business and non-governmental organisations to improve implementation of labour protection.
Research papers can be downloaded from the website.