We found 516 results for “Religious Freedom”.
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Obama Signs the Hate Crime Bill into Law! What’s Next?
October 28, 2009
By Paul LeGendre, cross-posted from Huffington Post Ten years ago this month, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally attacked and murdered because he was gay.…
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Respecting freedom of expression, while combating discrimination and intolerance: HRF Congressional Testimony
October 22, 2009
Check out testimony below made by Human Rights First’s Tad Stanhke, at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing yesterday on the Implications of the…
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In support of detention reform: interesting read in the Miami Herald
August 18, 2009
Great opinion piece in the Miami Herald this weekend by the vice chairs of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on on detention of…
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Report Finds U.S. Often Greets Asylum Seekers with Prison, not Protection
April 30, 2009
Washington, DC – Since 2003, U.S. immigration authorities have spent more than $300 million to detain over 48,000 asylum seekers in U.S. prisons and prison-like facilities…
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Rights Groups Welcome U.S. Engagement in Durban Review Process
February 16, 2009
New York, NY – Human Rights First and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, leading U.S. rights organizations, welcome the Obama administration’s decision to engage…
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Rights Groups Urge Obama Administration to Address Concerns with the Durban Review Conference
January 12, 2009
Washington, DC – The incoming Obama Administration should lead an international effort to reshape the United Nations Durban Review Conference into a forum for credible…
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Blueprint for Obama Administration Provides Recommendations for Repairing the U.S. Asylum System
December 4, 2008
NEW YORK – A leading human rights advocacy group released a detailed strategy today for the next administration to repair the U.S. asylum system and…
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UN Rights Chief Urged to Address Serious Concerns about Durban Review Conference
November 17, 2008
Washington, DC – Human Rights First and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights have urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay to…
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Asylum News 71
November 1, 2008
Blueprint for Obama Administration Provides Recommendations for Repairing the U.S. Asylum System Human Rights First’s Refugee Protection Program released a comprehensive blueprint – How to…
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Next Generation Internet Activists to Receive Annual Human Rights Award
October 21, 2008
NEW YORK – Human Rights First will host its annual dinner and 30th anniversary celebration honoring those at the forefront of the struggle to defend…
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Asylum News 69
September 1, 2008
Congress Holds EOIR Oversight Hearing On September 23, 2008 the House Judiciary Committee held its first oversight hearing of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR),…
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Asylum News 68
August 1, 2008
Asylum Denied More Often by Politically Vetted Judges; DOJ Failure to Increase Number of Judges An August 24, 2008 analysis by The New York Times revealed that immigration…