Qatar 2022 is over, now on to North America 2026 Now that this year’s FIFA World Cup is behind us (Congratulations, Argentina!), all eyes are on Mexico, United States and Canada who will co-host the mega-event in 2026. And after the infamous treatment of migrant workers in Qatar, we must ensure that next time human rights will be protected. Today, as we celebrate International Migrant’s Day, CDM’s Campaigns Director, Evy Peña published an op-ed in Reforma, a leading newspaper in Mexico, to call on FIFA, host cities and nations, to make human rights a priority and to implement sound human rights plans that take into account the voices of civil society and low-wage…

Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced an immigration relief policy for migrant and immigrant workers who face abuse and defend their workplace rights. This policy will empower workers to speak out and take action against exploitative employers by providing them temporary immigration protections and permission to work in the US when raising their voice against unsafe and unfair working conditions. This is a victory worth celebrating! Migrant and immigrant workers have long demanded these protections and CDM has supported those demands since its foundation in 2005. We applaud the agency for taking a step forward in strengthening protections for migrant and immigrant workers. This policy…

This is a watershed moment. On Tuesday,  Mexico and the United States signed a historic agreement (MOU) on protections for migrant workers. Thanks to our relentless advocacy, the agreement includes unprecedented provisions to strengthen workers’ rights across the region! For the past 17 years, CDM has led cross-border campaigns to advance migrant justice and gender equity in labor migration. You may remember Adareli Ponce and Maritza Perez, two migrant worker women who submitted the first petition against the U.S. government under the USMCA in March 2021. Together with a coalition of allies from across the region, we argued that the…

I am honored to share that CDM was just awarded the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons. The award ceremony happened a few moments ago during the annual meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF). The ceremony included Senior White House officials and principals from 20 participating PITF agencies, including Merrick Garland, Alejando Mayorkas and Xavier Becerra. I was honored to attend the White House ceremony with CDM Board President Cori Alonso-Yoder to receive the award from Secretary of State Antony Blinken on behalf of CDM. The award,…

On Workers Memorial Day 2020, as the pandemic was rapidly spreading, we announced our Protein Processing Worker Project (PPP), a collective effort to ensure that workers with limited knowledge of English had access to accurate information about COVID-19, their rights, and how to protect themselves from communicable diseases. Today, we are proud to share with you our second year impact report which details our partnership-based model and the incredible results we achieved alongside our 13 partner organizations. Both in-person and online, we helped workers defend their rights, protect their health and access vaccines, testing, and vital information about their right…

Yesterday, following a week of activities, we officially celebrated Labor Day and CDM’s 18th anniversary. Today, our vision remains the same as it did when we opened the doors to our first office in Zacatecas back in 2005: a world where borders aren’t barriers to justice and the rights of migrant workers are respected and laws and policies reflect their voices and experiences. To launch the week of activities, Daria Hernandez, a leader in our Migrant Defense Committee, and CDM staff joined the U.S. Department of Labor, the Mexican government and other governments for the kick-off of Labor Rights Week. As a keynote speaker,…