Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (Center for Migrant Rights) is the first transnational workers' rights law center based in Central Mexico.
We are a new and innovative non-profit organization dedicated to improving the working conditions of migrant workers in the United States.
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The Binational Labor Justice Convening in Mexico City in October 2007 brought together 15 American and 15 Mexican organizations to discuss binational strategies to advance labor justice on both sides of the border. CDM jointly organized the event with Mexican organization ProDESC. Read More >;
A CDM "Know Your Rights" training in the vilage of Xichu, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, with over 100 workers and their family members attending. More details here
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante provides the following services:
- Outreach and Education.
- Intake, Evaluation and Referral.
- Providing access to justice for Mexico-based workers through direct representation.
- Connecting the Mexican policy making community to their counterparts in the U.S.
A CDM Outreach team in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
A CDM Outreach team speaks to individual clients in the mountains of eastern Guerrero in June 2007.
CDM in Jerez de García Salinas, north-central Mexico
News
In our first two years, CDM has held meetings in some fifty towns in fourteen Mexican states reaching well over a thousand workers. CDM has worked with over a dozen U.S. based organizations to facilitate cases, distribute information about settlement agreements or opportunities to participate in litigation, and coordinate efforts on the ground in Mexico. CDM has also linked several dozen individual workers with groups in the U.S., and in certain instances has worked with private lawyers representing workers. CDM has also trained government officials, other advocates and human rights groups in the U.S. and Mexico.
--April 28-29, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Irapuato to investigate a case
--April 24, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Guadalajara for another meeting of the Foro Migraciones
--April 20, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Irapuato for a Comité training
--April 11-12, 2008 - CDM Staff travel to Monterrey to show support on the first anniversary of the murder of Santiago Rafael Cruz, an organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) who was murdered in Monterrey, Mexico on April 9, 2007
--April 1-2, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Ciudad del Maiz
--March 23, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Ciudad Fernandez in San Luis Potosi
--March 22-23, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Monterrey
--March 19-April 1, 2008 - A CDM Outreach team conducts a long and successful trip to find numerous clients in central and southern Oaxaca.
--March 13-14, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to San Luis Potosi
--March 7-11, 2008 - CDM hosts its first Board Retreat in Zacatecas, Mexico! Many, many thanks to all concerned
--March 7, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Mexico City for the Enlaces conference
--February 24-26, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to the Foro Migraciones in Celaya
--February 21-23, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels down to San Juan Huexoapa in Guerrero
--February 21-22, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Ejido Palomas in San Luis Potosi on an ongoing women's discrimination case
--February 16-18, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels down to Cano San Isidro in Guanajuato
--February 15, 2008 - CDM is saddened by the loss of a great champion of justice and CDM supporter, Michael Maggio
--February 4-7, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels down south to Chilpancingo, Atlixtac and Chilapa in Guerrero
--January 14-18, 2008 - CDM Outreach returns to Ciudad del Maiz, Ejido Palomas and Valle de Santiago. And for the first time, CDM visits Pitayo, San Jose del Brazo and Salamanca in Guanajuato
--January 13-15, 2008 - CDM Outreach ventures to Malinalco, and then on to Mexico City
--January 1-3, 2008 - CDM Outreach travels to Queretaro for depositions, and then to Celaya, Juriquilla and Valle de Santiago in Guanajuato
--December 8-9, 2007 - CDM Outreach travels to Ciudad Valles in San Luis Potosi, and Chapulhuacan in Hidalgo
--December 5-8, 2007 - CDM attends the 6th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference in Arlington, Virginia.
--December 1-6, 2007 - CDM staff travel to Ciudad del Maiz and Tamuzuchale in San Luis Potosi, and Celaya and Irapuato in Guanajuato
--November 12-17, 2007 - CDM staff travel to La Sierra Mixtexa and Oaxaca Cuidad
--October 4-8, 2007 - CDM and ProDESC jointly host the first Binational Labor Justice Convening in Mexico City. In total, more than 60 representatives of human rights organizations, unions, and academic institutions from both sides of the border, participated in working groups to develop binational strategies to advance migrant rights
--September 7-17, 2007 - CDM staff return to Guerrero on a 2000 mile task to work on a class action lawsuit
--August 6-12, 2007 - CDM staff return to eastern Guerrero
--June 13-16, 2007 - CDM staff travel to Tlapa, Guerrero to attend the 13th anniversary of the founding of el Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña "Tlachinollan"
--June 12, 2007 - CDM is featured on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle!
--June 10-12, 2007 - CDM outreach travels to the town of Rancho Morelos, in Santa Cruz Itundujia, Oaxaca to find a client
--June 9-18, 2007 - CDM staff travel down to eastern Guerrero on a mammoth (and successful) outreach trip, returning to Rancho Viejo and surrounding mountainous communities for the first time since March 2006
--June 3-4, 2007 - CDM staff travel to the town of Doctor Arroyo in Nuevo León to find a client
--May 8-12, 2007 - CDM staff travel to Morelia, Michoacan to assist in the Cumbre de Migrantes - "The First Hemispheric Summit of Migrant Communities"
--April 19-27, 2007 - CDM staff travel down to Oaxaca on casework
--April 14-16, 2007 - CDM outreach travels to Queretaro, San Jose Iturbide and Celaya on outreach to help build CDM's Workers´ Committee
--March 12-15, 2007 - CDM staff attended the Foro Migraciones meeting in Mexico City. El Foro Migraciones is a network of civil society organizations and individuals who work on migration from different perspectives
--March 10-12, 2007 - CDM spends three days on outreach in Rio Verde in San Luis Potosi
--March 8-9, 2007 - CDM outreach returns to Ocotlan and La Barca in Jalisco
--February 13-17, 2007 - CDM outreach returns to Tamazunchale in San Luis Potosi and to Chapulhuacan in Hidalgo
--February 5-8, 2007 - CDM outreach travels to Ocotlan and La Barca in Jalisco, and to Santiago Tangamandapio in Michoacán
--February 2-5, 2007 - CDM outreach returns to Xichu, Guanajuato
--January 23-26, 2007 - CDM outreach travels to Tamazunchale in San Luis Potosi and to Chapulhuacan in Hidalgo on a migrant women's discrimination case
--January 21-22, 2007 - CDM outreach travels to Ciudad del Maiz in the state of San Luis Potosi
--January 6-7, 2007 - CDM outreach travels to Santiago Tangamandapio and Jiquilpan in Michoacán
--January 4-8, 2007 - CDM outreach travels to Apasea el Alto and Celaya in Guanajuato
--December 16-19, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to Sombrerete in the state of Zacatecas
--December 6, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to Villa Hidalgo and Rancho Yañez in Jalisco
--December 3-4, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to Tlanepantla and Naucalpan in el Estado de Mexico continuing CDM's case facilitation on a collective action against one of the largest landscaping firms in the U.S.
--November 25, 2006 - CDM outreach returns to Sahuayo in Michoacán
--November 17-21, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to Rancho Morelos, Oaxaca
--November 9-13, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to Xichu, Guanajuato and holds a training with over 100 workers - More details here
--October 17-19, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to Sahuayo and Jiquilpan in Michoacán
--September 16-23, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to towns in eastern Oaxaca
CDM celebrates its first anniversary!
--September 1-3, 2006 - During the first weekend in September almost one hundred people crowded into the Case de Cultura in Zacatecas, Mexico to celebrate CDM’s first-year anniversary. During the weekend CDM also hosted the launched the first meeting of its workers' committee. Many more details here!
--August 12, 2006 - In its office in Zacatecas, Mexico, CDM held a day long strategy session on guestworker organizing. More details here
--August 8, 2006 - CDM would like to wish volunteer Chris Benoit nothing but the best after he leaves us to begin his first year at University of Washington Law School
--August 8, 2006 - An article in McClatchy Newspapers (recent purchaser of Knight Ridder) features CDM client Jesus Rojas, mentions Brickman landscaping case, and quotes CDM director
--July 18-20, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to the towns of Rio Verde and El Refugio in northern San Luis Potosi
--July 16, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to Lampotal in Zacatecas
--July 7-9, 2006 - In a major outreach trip to Michoacan, CDM continues its 6-month campaign to inform some 2,500 migrant workers eligible to join a collective action against one of the largest landscaping firms in the U.S. More details here
--June 30, 2006 - CDM outreach travels to Jalpan in the central State of Queretaro
--June 19, 2006 - The Nation, has a piece on migrants in the U.S., and features Leticia Zavala, member of CDM's Board of Advisors, and organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
--June 13-18, 2006 - CDM outreach trip to Guanajuato. More details here
--June 2-7, 2006 - CDM staff undertook a major outreach trip to Guerrero and Puebla. CDM participated in "Migrar o Morir", [Migrate or Die] a migrant workers outreach and training workshop hosted by Tlachinollan Center for Human Rights in Guerrero. In Puebla, CDM held an outreach meeting and met with representatives of Yacana, a migrant rights organization. More details here
--May 23, 2006 - Imagen, a local newspaper, mentions CDM
--April 25, 2006 - The Executive Director of CDM, Rachel Micah Jones, gave some views on guest worker programs in both the Christian Science Monitor and USA Today
--On Sunday April 9, 2006, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante took part in a march in Jerez, Zacatecas in support of migrant labor rights in the United States
--The Executive Director of CDM, Rachel Micah Jones, has been named as a winner of a 2006
Peter M. Cicchino Award for Outstanding Advocacy in the Public Interest!
--Download our 2005 Winter newsletter here! (in pdf)
--The Executive Director of CDM, Rachel Micah Jones, has been named as a 2005
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