The Biden administration should take urgent steps to ensure prompt and non-discriminatory access to U.S. ports of entry for people seeking asylum. The administration described its May 2023 and June ...

Immigration lawyers in Britain told Human Rights First they need better protection from the United Kingdom government after ...

Human Rights First welcomes today’s announcement by the British government that it will finally organize a full independent public inquiry into the 1989 murder of human rights defender lawyer Pat ...

Human Rights First released a report detailing threats to immigration lawyers in Britain by right-wing extremists during widespread rioting in July and August.   Easy Targets: Immigration Lawyers in ...

Human Rights First and 95 leading human rights and anticorruption NGOs called on the Department of Treasury and the State Department to reverse the declining use of Global Magnitsky sanctions and act ...

According to activists, Ukrainian men are being pulled away from lifesaving humanitarian work and drafted into the military under new conscription laws. Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) based in Kharkiv ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, Human Rights First announced a call for nominations for the 2024 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award. Nominations are due by September 23, 2024. “Honoring those who ...

Last summer I met Iryna and Lyuda in the village of Dovhenke, about 15 miles south of Izyum, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. The area had been occupied by Russian forces for most of 2022. In her ...