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One of CDM’s fundamental goals is to train migrants in Mexico to identify and avoid workplace abuses in the United States. CDM’s “Know-Your-Rights” workshops have reached over 6,000 migrants in communities across Mexico. Beginning in February, CDM and members of the Comité will launch a new outreach program in which Comité members will be trained to use the new curricu ...

CDM’s Oaxaca Outreach team traveled to the communities of Lázaro Cárdenas and Santa María Yucunicoco in early January to follow-up on a variety of pending cases. While there, two individuals, one woman and one man, expressed interest in joining the Comité de Defensa del Migrante. Over the course of 2012, CDM will place emphasis upon expanding membership to the Comité to include indig ...

This January, CDM and theUniversity of Maryland (UMD) International and Comparative Law Clinicbegan their third year of collaboration. Over the past two years, CDM Executive Director, Rachel Micah-Jones, has taught students at the law clinic, while CDM has hosted UMD students in its Mexico and Baltimore offices.

While in Mexico, UMD law students will support CDM’s international and ...