As Congress votes today on spending bills, Human Rights First’s Senior Director of Refugee Advocacy, Robyn Barnard, issued the following statement: “Congress has to decide whether it will fund ...

The new U.S. sanctions program targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC) that was announced by executive order on February 6 differs in only minor respects from the sanctions program created in ...

Human Rights First today launched Democracy Watch, a new AI-powered tool that tracks executive actions and legislation, ...

Dr. Laila Souief looked small and frail, but her voice was determined as she addressed the media outside Downing Street in London yesterday. She is 134 days into a hunger strike to draw attention to ...

On the first day of the Trump-Vance Administration, the President issued a host of anti-immigrant and -refugee Executive Orders that undermine our national security, tarnish our global reputation, and ...

Human Rights First joined a coalition of immigrant rights advocates urging the U.S. government to provide immediate access to the individuals transferred from the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay. Holding any ...

The Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award was established in 1989 and named in honor of the principal founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the organization later known as the ...

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NEW YORK – Human Rights First announced today that climate rights activist and lawyer Dang Dinh Bach, jailed in Vietnam since June 2021, is the winner of the 2024 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty.

Washington, D.C. – In response to the Trump administration’s decision to freeze almost all foreign aid, Human Rights First’s President and CEO Sue Hendrickson issued the following statement: U.S.