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Report Details How Election Denialists Recruit Veterans

NEW YORK – Human Rights First this week released Mapping the Movement: Election Denialists Recruit Veterans and Threaten 2024 Election, a report that tracks election deniers’ efforts to recruit veterans…

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Access to U.S. Asylum

Basics of Asylum

Authors: Geoffrey Louden and Christina Asencio | Read the factsheet The United States has a long and proud history of allowing people to request asylum and providing refuge to victims of…

Fact Sheets

Access to U.S. Asylum

Human Rights First details violence against asylum seekers at U.S. border

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Afghan Resettlement

Supporting Afghans at Support Center in Atlanta

Blog

Access to U.S. Asylum

Asylum Ban Strands Asylum Seekers and Migrants in Mexico and Returns Them to Danger

Fact Sheets

Human Rights First Tracker of Attacks Against Migrants Under Asylum Ban in 2023

Authors: Linda Urueña Mariño and Christina Asencio. Human Rights First’s newest database tracks the instances of reported attacks against asylum seekers and migrants stranded in Mexico due to the Biden…

Impact Study

The Military & Extremism

Mapping the Movement: Election Denialists Recruit Veterans and Threaten 2024 Election

Since 2020, the election denial movement has been working to build a grassroots network to infiltrate local democratic institutions. Installing election deniers in positions of influence threatens the accuracy of…

Reports

Ukraine’s Winter War

Vulnerable civilians brace for coming freeze As temperatures plummet in Ukraine, slowing the ground war, Russia resumes bombing the country’s heating infrastructure. They target Ukraine’s cities, aiming to make life…

Reports

Accountability

Report Assesses Impacts of Magnitsky Sanctions

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Human Rights First, REDRESS, Open Society Foundations, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and the Pan American Development Foundation today released a report detailing the impact…

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Accountability

Human Rights First and our partners launch Magnitsky Month 2023

This November, Human Rights First and our partners mark Magnitsky Month, an annual effort to advocate for the use of Magnitsky-style sanctions to address human rights abuses and corruption around…

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Refugee Protection

Human Rights First Opposes Attempts to Undermine Asylum Protections

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Congress works to pass emergency funding packages, Human Rights First strongly opposes any attempts to use these bills to change asylum law. Such actions would undermine…

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Ukraine

Liptsi medics restore services after Russians destroyed their hospital

By Brian Dooley Russian troops reached the Ukrainian village of Liptsi within minutes of launching their large-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. It’s only six miles from the Russian border. “They…

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