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Next Generation Internet Activists Receive Human Rights Award
October 24, 2008
NEW YORK – Celebrities, emerging human rights defenders and seasoned activists came together on Thursday night at Chelsea Piers for Human Rights First’s annual dinner…
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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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Relligious Leader Calls Torture the First Major Scandal of the 21st Centrury
September 19, 2008
Here’s David Gushee writing in the Associated Baptist Press. Opinion: Torture: Our first major 21st-century scandal By David Gushee Friday, 19 September 2008 (ABP) — The…
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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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More “Outsourcing” of Torture?
August 28, 2008
Last night former President Bill Clinton, speaking at the Democratic National Convention, challenged the current administration’s “defense of torture.” And today the New York Times…
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Civil Society Groups Seek Durban Review that Rejects Hatred
April 28, 2008
GENEVA— Human Rights First joined 94 leading civil society organizations this morning to declare that the United Nations and its organizations and conferences on human…
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Archives of Human Rights First to be Housed at Columbia University Libraries
April 18, 2008
(NEW YORK, April 18, 2008) On February 20th, 2008, a formal agreement was signed by James Neal, Columbia’s Vice President for Information Services and University…
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State Department Human Rights Reports Highlight Need for U.S. Leadership
March 11, 2008
NEW YORK— Widespread violations of human rights detailed in the State Department’s 2007 country reports, released today, underscore the urgent need for U.S. leadership in…
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Human Rights Panel Of Experts To Mark 10th Anniversary Of International Human Rights Agreement
January 22, 2008
NEW YORK – A group of international human rights experts and activists will participate in a panel discussion to mark the 10th anniversary of an…
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All in a Day’s Work: Day Two of Salim Hamdan’s Status Determination Hearing
December 6, 2007
Military Commission Trial Observation Human Rights First, at the invitation of the Department of Defense, is an official observer at the military commissions held at…
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Tunisia: Allow Rights Activists to Attend US Conference
November 10, 2007
A joint statement by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) Tunisia Monitoring Group. The Tunisian government…
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The Bush Administration’s Interrogation Policies Rejected
October 8, 2007
Following last week’s revelation of the existence of new torture memos, there has been a lot of public conversation about American interrogation policy. Overwhelmingly, Americans…