We found 289 results for “Illegal Detention”.
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Pakistan Must Stop Sending Afghan Refugees Back to Danger
April 1, 2024
From Karachi to Peshawar to Quetta to Islamabad, millions of Afghans and other migrants have spent decades making their homes in Pakistan. Last year, the…
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Human Rights First Urges Biden Administration to Protect Haitian Refugees
March 20, 2024
WASHINGTON DC – As the human rights catastrophe facing people in Haiti continues to escalate, Human Rights First calls on the Biden administration to urgently implement…
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U.S. Policies Punish Refugees at the Border
February 20, 2024
It was midnight and two mothers stood in heavy rain clutching their eight- and ten-month-old infants in cold, soaked blankets. The late-January temperature just south…
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Reflections from Immaculate
January 18, 2024
Immaculate is a native citizen of Uganda and Human Rights First client now living in Los Angeles. She won asylum in 2023 and is now…
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Rhetoric v. Reality:
August 1, 2023
Biden Administration Should Correct Misleading Narrative on Asylum Eligibility In promulgating recent policy that unlawfully bans and blocks refugees from asylum protections in the United…
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U.S. GLOBAL MAGNITSKY SANCTIONS
June 30, 2023
The best-known of the United States government’s (USG) targeted sanctions tools to address human rights abuse and corruption is the Global Magnitsky (GloMag) sanctions program.…
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A Line that Barely Budges
June 9, 2023
U.S. Limiting Access to Asylum This report documents impediments facing people attempting to seek asylum at the U.S. port of entry in Nogales, Arizona following…
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Biden Administration Plan to Resurrect Asylum Ban Advances Trump Agenda
January 17, 2023
Would Condemn Refugees to Return to Harm, Family Separation, and Permanent Limbo On January 5, 2023, the Biden administration announced new policies relating to the…
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Biden Administration Use and Expansion of Trump Policy to Ban People Seeking Asylum Endangers Lives, Tramples Human Rights
January 5, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s announcement of plans to expand use of the Trump-initiated Title 42 policy and resurrect other unlawful Trump policies to ban…
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Flawed Expedited Removal Denies Refugees Asylum Hearings
September 19, 2022
NEW YORK – As the Biden administration steps up the use of expedited removal, Human Rights First released a new report, “Pretense of Protection: Biden…
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Taking on Policies that Harm Human Rights Defenders at the Border
August 2, 2022
By Cora Wright, Legal Fellow, Refugee Protection and Refugee Representation A few weeks ago, a Mexican cartel in Nuevo Laredo kidnapped Baptist Pastor Lorenzo Ortiz,…
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NGO Shadow Report on anti-Black US Immigration Practices Submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
July 22, 2022
This Shadow Report is submitted for the combined tenth, eleventh, and twelfth periodic review of the United States (“US”) by the Committee on the Elimination…