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Hope in Exile: Gema’s journey to asylum

October 11, 2024

By Camila Rice-Aguilar

Human Rights First’s former client, Gema Valle, was a teacher in Nicaragua before she was forced to…

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Peace and Solidarity: Spotlight on the Olympic Refugee Team

October 11, 2024

Representing resilience and unity under the Olympic flag, the Refugee Olympic Team serves as a powerful symbol of hope, peace, and the limitless potential of…

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Q&A with Social Worker Diana Diaz Madera

October 10, 2024

World Mental Health Day, observed each year on October 10, offers an opportunity to explore the particularly acute mental health challenges facing people…

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Evacuating Civilians Under Fire in Ukraine: Dangerous Human Rights Defender Works at Its Best

October 8, 2024

Donetsk—Last week, I again joined Ukrainian Human Rights Defenders Sasha Humaniuk and Daniel Zakharchenko of the Kharkiv-based Rose on…

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CEO Susan Hendrickson reflects on the role of lawyers in the fight for human rights

September 27, 2024

On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia and signed a document that continues to define the shape…

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Seriously Ill Bahraini political prisoner calls for help from visiting US Congressional delegation

September 1, 2024

By Brian Dooley

Mohamed Al-Ramal is serving a life sentence in Building 12 of Bahrain’s notorious Jau Prison, and is asking for national and international…

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Three Years On: The Continuing Mission to Support our Afghan Allies

August 30, 2024

By Shala Gafary

Three years ago, in late August 2021, the last US military airplanes departed Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. As these…

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Vegetables grown from rubble: local humanitarian aid volunteers changing lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine

August 19, 2024

Last summer I met Iryna and Lyuda in the village of Dovhenke, about 15 miles south…

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