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Supporting clients who face mental health challenges

May 22, 2024

May’s month-long focus on mental health awareness offers an opportunity to explore the particularly acute mental health challenges facing people seeking asylum. Asylum seekers…

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Locals Raise Corruption Issues Over Kharkiv Fortifications As Russians Advance

May 20, 2024

Our journalist friends at Gwara Media are reporting on Russian military advances into northeastern Ukraine.  At great risk to themselves, they are detailing…

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Mother Mushroom: A Journey of Advocacy, Motherhood, and Asylum

May 12, 2024

By Camila Rice-Aguilar

Human Rights First’s former client, Quynh Nguyen, tells her story of dissent, motherhood, and human rights advocacy…

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Escaping Extremes: Climate Change’s Role in Displacement and Migration

April 22, 2024

By Sydney Randall

In 2019, a family of tomato farmers in Mexico experienced a scorching summer.

There…

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Ukraine’s Intelligence Services Harass Anti-Corruption Activists

April 11, 2024

By Brian Dooley

In 2017, I went to the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine when I…

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Child Trafficking and Child Labor Continues to Plague India

April 8, 2024

By Siona Chibber, Communications Intern

Human trafficking among children in India has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic. New…

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Silencing the Truth: The Global Crisis of Press Freedom and Journalist Safety

April 4, 2024

By Xuanjie “Coco” Huang, Communications Intern.

In a world where information is power, the erosion of press freedom strikes at the core…

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Civil Rights are Human Rights: Reflections from Montgomery, Alabama

April 4, 2024

By Maya Fernandez-Powell

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” 

– Dr.…

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