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Supporting Afghans even as they fade from the news

January 3, 2022

By Sophie Salmore

Out of a combined 14,000-plus minutes of the national evening news broadcast on CBS, ABC, and NBC in 2020, just five minutes…

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Families Preventing Britain from Burying the Truth on Irish Conflict

December 20, 2021

By Brian Dooley

It’s been a tough month for a British government hoping to draw a line under its crimes during the 1969-1998 Troubles…

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The CDC’S Extension of the Title 42 Order: Misusing Public Health Authority

December 20, 2021

By: Diandra Coonghe, HRF Intern

 

Human Rights First Fall 2021 Communications Intern Diandra Coonghe is studying biological science at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She prepared…

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“Nothing Humane About This Process”

December 16, 2021

Biden Administration Launches “Remain in Mexico” Revamp at El Paso Port of Entry

By Julia Neusner, Ana Ortega Villegas

The Biden administration began…

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Cover-up in the Finucane Case + Brexit = Trouble in US-UK relations

December 4, 2021

By Brian Dooley

Even to seasoned watchers of the United Kingdom government’s policy on Northern Ireland, the announcement on Monday that there would be no…

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Biden Administration Should Move to End a Decade of Pain in Bahrain

November 22, 2021

Exactly ten years ago today I was sitting in a Bahraini royal palace witnessing an extraordinary event.

An international lawyer, who had been appointed by…

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British Government Proposes Amnesty for Killings That’s Worse Than Pinochet’s

September 10, 2021

In a startling move, in July 2021, the British government announced a proposal to end all Troubles-era prosecutions, granting amnesty to its soldiers

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Listening to Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine

August 29, 2021

By Brian Dooley

No one knows how many war crimes have been committed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February, or how many…

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