Press
Human Rights First and Refugees International Launch New Tracker Exposing Secretive Third Country Transfer Agreements
December 5, 2025
Trump Administration’s Halt in Processing of All Asylum Applications is Punitive, Extreme, and Undermines Our National Interest
December 3, 2025
Human Rights First Condemns Trump Administration’s Dangerous Refugee Review Directive
November 25, 2025
Human Rights First Condemns U.S. Government’s Deportation of Ukrainians into Active War Zone
November 21, 2025
Human Rights First Condemns Gov. Abbott’s Unlawful Attack on America’s Largest Muslim Civil-Rights Organization
November 20, 2025
Welcoming MBS Undercuts U.S. Values and Security, Human Rights First Warns
November 18, 2025
Blog
Women Human Rights Defenders Address Digital Violence During the 16 Days of Activism
November 25, 2025
The Multi-Pronged Authoritarian Attack on the Right to Dissent
November 25, 2025
Veterans Day: Our Duty Doesn’t End When We Hang Up the Uniform
November 10, 2025
Egypt Is Prosecuting a Mother for Reporting Her Son’s Torture
November 7, 2025
The Human Cost of Aid Cuts: Syrians Fleeing to Lebanon After the Fall of Assad
November 3, 2025
UN Special Rapporteur Reminds States of the Duties to Protect Climate HRDs
October 29, 2025
Report
Human Rights First 2025 Highlights
November 23, 2025
ICE Flight Monitor: October 2025 Report
November 13, 2025
ATTACKING THE WATCHDOGS
October 23, 2025
Report to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Follow Up to July 24, 2025 Public Hearing, “Human rights situation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers”
October 14, 2025
ICE Flight Monitor: September 2025 Report
October 9, 2025
ICE Flight Monitor: August 2025 Report
September 11, 2025
Amicus Brief
Human Rights First Joins ACLU and NYCLU in Amicus Brief to Protect First Amendment Rights and Interests of NGOs Advocating for U.S. Sanctions
April 25, 2025
Amicus Brief challenging Interim Final Rule: “Securing the Border”
July 30, 2024
Amicus Letter to Mexican Supreme Court on “Remain in Mexico”
October 5, 2023
Amicus brief in U.S. v. Suquilanda
November 16, 2022
Lousiana v. CDC
August 3, 2022
SFFA v. Harvard & UNC
July 28, 2022
Fact Sheet
Refugee Resettlement for Fiscal Year 2026: Refugee Populations At-Risk
September 29, 2025
U.S. VISA SANCTIONS UNDER SECTION 7031(C)
September 17, 2025
Unequal Protection: Reconciliation Bill Will Deny Due Process and Return the Most Vulnerable to Persecution Through Exorbitant Fees to Seek Asylum
June 11, 2025
Trapped in Danger: Trump Administration Policies Endanger Persecuted LGBTQI+ People
June 5, 2025
The U.S. Government is Forcibly Disappearing Migrants
May 1, 2025
The Leahy Laws and Their Relationship With Global Magnitsky Sanctions
April 24, 2025
Letter
Upholding Not Undermining International Law: Civil Society Open Letter to States (December 2025, reissued)
December 5, 2025
Human Rights First Comment on the Department of Homeland Security’s Interim Final Rule, “Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents,” Docket No. USCIS-2025-0271
December 3, 2025
Upholding Not Undermining International Law: Civil Society Open Letter to States
September 22, 2025
Re: Human Rights First Comment on the Department of Education’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program, Docket No. ED-2025-OPE-0016
September 17, 2025
Human Rights First and More than 80 Organizations Call on Congress to Uphold US Law and Suspend Security Assistance to Israel
August 13, 2025
Letter from Military Veteran and Family Organizations to Secretary Hegseth on Civilian Harm Mitigation Programs
June 24, 2025
Testimony
Remarks from Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing on U.S. Government’s Human Rights Violations Against Immigrants and Asylum Seekers
July 24, 2025
Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Lawless Third Country Disappearances
June 6, 2025
Testimony: The Need for an Authorized State Department
April 30, 2025
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: Implementation of the Global Magnitsky Laws
December 9, 2024
Finucane Family Testifies in U.S. Congress About Inquiry into 1989 Murder of Belfast Human Rights Lawyer
November 20, 2024
Written Testimony of Amy Spitalnick on May 16, 2023
May 16, 2023