Human Rights First is pleased to announce that Scott Busby, a distinguished expert and advocate with over 30 years of experience in human rights, refugee protection, and migration issues, has joined ...

Human Rights First today called on the U.S. government to impose targeted financial and visa sanctions on a senior Egyptian official and a U.S. company for their apparent involvement in the bribery of ...

Under the Remain in Mexico policy (RMX), the Department of Homeland Security forced asylum seekers to wait in dangerous Mexican border cities while their U.S. immigration court cases were pending.

Human Rights First is pleased to announce that Joshua Colangelo-Bryan has joined the organization as Special Counsel.  In ...

These four freedoms are part of the key American ideals Human Rights First wants to see the United States to uphold. As FDR encapsulated, “Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.” When ...

On Sunday, October 6, 2024, Human Rights Defender (HRD) Tigran Galustyan was driving to rescue civilians from Ukraine’s eastern front near Pokrovsk when he was targeted and killed by a Russian ...

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Human Rights First has been documenting human rights issues in Ukraine since Russia’s 2014 invasion. Since the full-scale invasion of February 2022 I’ve made 17 research visits to the country, ...

Kupiansk – Ukraine is in the middle of a really tough winter. The war is going badly, with a Russian offensive that began in May 2024 making slow but steady progress, eating into Ukrainian territory ...