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Verite, a non-profit that works to ensure safe, fair, and legal working conditions worldwide, has launched its Well Made campaign focused on helping companies, investors, governments, and advocy groups take a leadership role in addressing trafficking and modern-day slavery among migrant worker populations.

The Well Made campaign provides companies with questions to put to suppliers about working conditions and encourages investors to pressure companies to ensure proper recruitment, hiring, and treatment of workers.

For years, Verite has been key in cleaning up supply chains of global brands such as Timberland, Gap, Levi Strauss, Apple, Disney, and HP and continues to expose the prevalence of modern-day slavery.

In fact, a recent article, “Modern-Day Slavery: Alive and Well,” states that an estimated 12 to 27 million people are victims of slavery, and other forms of forced labor around the world. In the United States alone, 10,000 or more people are being forced to work at any given time.

These workers produce products we encounter on a daily basis such as blueberries, organic milk, personal computers, cells phones, and clothing. The investment community is uniquely positioned to make a difference by using their leverage to shape corporate policy to address this worldwide problem. Visit the Verite website at www.verite.org or the Well Made page at www.verite.org/WellMade for more information on how you can make a difference.