Verité Illuminates Labor Trafficking & Abuses in Malaysian Electronics
• • ATEST • Malaysia
On October 23, Huffington Post published an important blog piece by Dan Viederman, CEO of Verité. Viederman describes scenarios of forced labor and modern slavery that are commonly found in multinational companies’ supply chains. Indeed, “[a] recent Verité study found that one in three migrants working in Malaysian electronics manufacturing were in situations of forced labor, meaning tens of thousands of people trapped in their jobs.”
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