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The Woman’s Way: Brilliance, Resilience, and Unwavering Grit

By Marvelous Maeze, ELAB Executive Co-Chair and DEI Committee Chair During March, Women’s History Month, Human Rights First’s Emerging Leaders Advisory Board honors women who work past stereotypes and sexism…

Blog

Irish America, Give Us a Hand This St. Patrick’s Day

It’s time for Irish America to get serious and get organized. Key parts of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement are under threat, including determining the legacy of the conflict in…

Bahrain

As Human Rights Researchers Denied Entry to Bahrain, U.S. Embassy Stays Silent

By Brian Dooley It’s fair to say that Bahrain’s ruling family doesn’t do well with negative feedback. Its peaceful critics are in jail, framed for being terrorists. It can’t risk the…

Blog

Ukraine and Russia

Almost There: When Will the Biden Administration Support the ICC in Ukraine?

This article was first published on Just Security on March 4, 2023 By Adam Keith Over the last year, the people of Ukraine have endured Russian war crimes on a staggering scale, from the mass…

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Access to U.S. Asylum

Human Rights First opposes Biden’s proposal to detain asylum seekers

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following reports in yesterday’s New York Times that the Biden administration is considering detaining immigrant and asylum-seeking families who cross the border, Human Rights First urges the…

Press

Inaugural Joe Brand Human Rights Fellow Selected

Human Rights First and Squire Patton Boggs Foundation initiate fellowship with GW Law School WASHINGTON, D.C. – Human Rights First and the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation launch the Joe Brand…

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Accountability

“Comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of the Sergei Magnitsky Law and the Special Economic Measures Act”

Senate of Canada Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade Hearing On “Comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of the Sergei Magnitsky Law and the Special Economic Measures…

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Accountability

Human Rights First Welcomes U.S. Sanctions for Vladimir Kara-Murza’s Persecutors

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. government sanctioned six Russian individuals involved in the arbitrary detention of Russian opposition leader, journalist, and historian Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been jailed in Moscow…

Press

Statement for the Record: “Every State is a Border State: Examining Secretary Mayorkas’ Border Crisis”

Statement for the Record of Human Rights First On House Committee on Homeland Security “Every State is a Border State: Examining Secretary Mayorkas’ Border Crisis” Human Rights First is alarmed at the scale and…

Statements

Civil Rights Are Backsliding. We Need a Third Reconstruction.

By Licha Nyiendo Last month another young Black man, Tyre Nichols, was murdered at the hands of rogue police officers. The horror of Tyre Nichols’s death is matched by the…

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Refugee Protection

Joint NGO Letter Re: Additional Delay in Rescinding Public Health Asylum Ban Rule

RE: Security Bars and Processing, DHS Docket No. USCIS 2020-0013 The 121 undersigned faith-based groups, national and local legal services providers, medical and public health experts, refugee, human, and civil…

Access to U.S. Asylum

Biden Administration’s Proposed Asylum Ban: Illegal, Inhumane, and No Solution

On February 23, 2023, the Biden administration published a proposed rule that would illegally ban many refugees from seeking asylum in the United States and deprive refugees of the ability to…

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