Press
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
State Department Reorganization Undermines U.S. Human Rights and Humanitarian Leadership and American Security and Prosperity
April 22, 2025
Toothless Human Rights Reports Will Give Free Pass to Autocrats
April 18, 2025
Court Protects Nationwide Class from Deportations to Nondesignated Countries Without Notice and Opportunity to Seek Protection from Torture
April 18, 2025
Human Rights First and Transparency International U.S. Condemn U.S. Corruption Sanctions Relief for Hungarian Official
April 15, 2025
Judge Temporarily Halts Trump Administration’s Attempt to Revoke Legal Status of Hundreds of Thousands; Grants Class Certification
April 14, 2025
Blog
Legalizing Repression: How Georgia’s New Laws Set the Stage for Silencing Dissent
April 25, 2025
New Series on U.S. Security Assistance and Human Rights Accountability
April 24, 2025
Attacks on Universities over Gaza Protests Threaten Students’ Free Speech
April 21, 2025
What abuses and corrupt acts can be sanctioned in different Magnitsky jurisdictions?
April 17, 2025
Egypt Activists Exasperated at Fading EU Support
April 3, 2025
Forgiveness for the Few: The New PSLF
March 27, 2025
Report
Targeted and Killed
January 3, 2025
Easy Targets
September 9, 2024
New Recruits
August 28, 2024
Highly Suspect
August 22, 2024
U.S. Global Magnitsky and Related Sanctions Mid-Year Update
August 15, 2024
“Don’t Tell Me About Your Fear”
August 7, 2024
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
The Leahy Laws and Their Relationship With Global Magnitsky Sanctions
April 24, 2025
Questions and Answers: U.S. Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
March 19, 2025
Jailing Immigrant Families Inflicts Severe Harms and Wastes Resources
January 23, 2025
Remain in Mexico: Unlawful, Ineffective, and Must Never Return
January 10, 2025
Recommendations for Equitable Access to Asylum and Ports of Entry
September 16, 2024
Saving Lives, Ending Inefficiencies
July 9, 2024
Letter
Letter to the FCDO Regarding the Need to Increase Global Leadership in Accountability for Human Rights Abuses and Corruption Through Targeted Sanctions
April 4, 2025
Letters to the governments of Costa Rica and Panama urge countries to address injustices relating to U.S. return scheme
March 27, 2025
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Trumps Hatred and Ill-Will
January 20, 2025
Disappearances of Migrants as a Result of United States’ and Mexico’s Migration Policies
December 16, 2024
Veterans and Civil Rights Organizations Urge Congress to Reject Harmful Provisions in the NDAA
November 19, 2024
Human Rights First’s Comment on the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security’s Final Rule on Securing the Border
November 5, 2024
Testimony
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
“Comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of the Sergei Magnitsky Law and the Special Economic Measures Act”
March 6, 2023
U.S. policies and practices subjecting LGBTQ asylum seekers to human rights violations, arbitrary detention in often life-threatening conditions, and denials of and delays in refugee protection
August 22, 2022
Ensuring Safety and Support for Human Rights Defenders of Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Other Migrants Targeted by Illegal Pushback Policies, Extremist Attacks, and Harassment by Government Officials
June 27, 2022