Fact Sheet

Asylum Process Rule Includes Welcome Improvements, But Critical Flaws Remain to Be Resolved

May 6, 2022

On March 29, 2022, the Biden administration published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that creates a new process for asylum seekers entering the United…

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Global Magnitsky and Serious Human Rights Abuse

March 22, 2022

Human Rights First and Freedom House produced this fact sheet to explain how the “serious human rights abuse” standard has allowed the Global Magnitsky sanctions…

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Religious freedom-related sanctions not possible under the Global Magnitsky Act

March 22, 2022

Human Rights First and Freedom House produced a fact sheet to explain how Global Magnitsky sanctions have helped protect international religious freedom – because the…

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Two Years of Suffering: Biden Administration Continues Use of Discredited Title 42 Order to Flout Refugee Law

March 17, 2022

For two years, the U.S. government has illegally blocked and expelled people seeking refuge at the southern U.S. border despite U.S. laws and…

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Ten Reasons to End the Title 42 Policy

March 11, 2022

March 20, 2022 will mark two years since the Trump administration began to use the Title 42 policy to block and expel to danger people…

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Disinformation and Spin: Trump Administration Deploys Troops to Border, Paints Asylum Seekers and Attorneys as Threat

March 10, 2022

On March 6, 2020, as the Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to freeze a February 28 ruling halting its forced return of asylum…

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Evacuate Our Allies Calls Out Biased Media Coverage of Forced Displacement

March 9, 2022

Against the backdrop of displacement crises in Afghanistan, the U.S.-Mexico border, and other areas, the differences in reporting are stark

Following media coverage…

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Q & A on Sanctions and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

March 1, 2022

What are sanctions, and why are they being used or proposed in this crisis?

The word “sanctions” broadly describes a range of coercive measures usually…

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