We found 2129 results for “Torture”.
Press
After 20 Years, Guantanamo Must Be Closed
January 11, 2022
WASHINGTON — Today, on the 20th anniversary of the first detainees arriving at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Human Rights First reiterates its call to end…
Blog
Families Preventing Britain from Burying the Truth on Irish Conflict
December 20, 2021
By Brian Dooley It’s been a tough month for a British government hoping to draw a line under its crimes during the 1969-1998 Troubles in…
Letter
Joint Letter in Response to RMX 2.0 and Title 42 Continuation
December 17, 2021
We, the undersigned 242 organizations, write in dismay at the administration’s decision to expand the Remain in Mexico policy and deploy it in tandem with…
Blog
“Nothing Humane About This Process”
December 16, 2021
Biden Administration Launches “Remain in Mexico” Revamp at El Paso Port of Entry By Julia Neusner, Ana Ortega Villegas The Biden administration began returning asylum…
Fact Sheet
Biden Administration Poised to Eliminate Critical Safeguard Amid Escalating Reports of Erroneous Credible Fear Decisions
December 8, 2021
Across the country, non-profit legal services organizations and individual attorneys have received alarming recent reports of asylum seekers from Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and…
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Human Rights First Urges Biden Administration to Honor Promise to Permanently End Trump’s “Remain in Mexico”
December 2, 2021
WASHINGTON — In response to the Biden administration’s announcement today that it will restart the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as “Remain in Mexico,” in the…
Letter
Joint NGO Letter on U.S. Compliance with Convention Against Torture Obligations
December 1, 2021
Dear Secretary Blinken, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield, Chargé d’Affaires Moeling, and Ambassador Rice: We write to express deep concerns about reports that the Biden administration has submitted…
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U.S. Lifting Burundi Sanctions; Rights Groups Call for Accountability
November 24, 2021
WASHINGTON D.C. — Human Rights First and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expressed concern regarding the Biden Administration’s November 18 decision to terminate the targeted…
Blog
Biden Administration Should Move to End a Decade of Pain in Bahrain
November 22, 2021
Exactly ten years ago today I was sitting in a Bahraini royal palace witnessing an extraordinary event. An international lawyer, who had been appointed by…
Letter
NGO Letter to DHS and USCIS on Employment Authorization for Asylum Seekers
November 17, 2021
Dear Secretary Mayorkas and Director Jaddou, We, the 75 undersigned organizations, write to urge the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to eliminate – rather than…
Letter
Legal Service Providers Joint Letter on MPP
October 19, 2021
Dear President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary Mayorkas, and Attorney General Garland: The undersigned 73 legal services providers, law school clinics, and law firms, write…
Letter
Human Rights First Comment on Asylum Process Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
October 18, 2021
Human Rights First submits these comments in response to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration…