Dear Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Wicker, Chairman Rogers, and Ranking Member Smith: As Senate and House conferees meet to discuss their differing versions of the FY 2025 National Defense ...

The following is the statement of Human Rights First President and CEO, Sue Hendrickson, on the 2024 presidential election.  With the results of the 2024 election, the United States has entered a ...

For a year and a half, the Biden administration has implemented asylum bans that punish people fleeing persecution and torture. These bans, issued in 2023 and 2024, are similar to prior Trump ...

Authoritarian regimes around the world regularly use arbitrary detention as a tool of repression to silence dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists, and other perceived government critics and ...

The DP program at Human Rights First was established to combat the mainstreaming of dangerous rhetoric, legislation, and policies that continue to be leveraged against communities and democratic ...

Content warning: the following piece discusses topics of homophobia, violence, and rape. I always get culture shock whenever I’m in a place like New York or Washington, D.C. I am not used to being ...

This coming Thursday, October 31, Latvian Woman Human Rights Defender Ieva Raubiško is expecting to hear if she is going to prison for helping people trying to seek protection near the border with ...

View event photos. Learn about to 2022 William D. Zabel Human Rights Award Winner, Grupa Granica. On June 8th, we are hosting our second annual–but… ...