In response to reports that the Trump administration is considering capping refugee resettlement at  40,000 refugees or less for fiscal year 2026, with a majority of spots given to white South ...

On August 19, Latvian Human Rights Defender Ieva Raubiško will once again appear in court to learn whether she will be sent to prison for helping a group of asylum seekers at Latvia’s border with ...

Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our grave concern regarding the preventable humanitarian catastrophe and mass starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip. We ...

Just one week after Dr. Laila Soueif ended her 10-month hunger strike, an Egyptian court has removed her son, ...

Human Rights First condemns the far-reaching cuts and politically driven revisions the Trump administration has reportedly made to the State Department’s soon to be released annual Country Reports on ...

Human Rights First deeply opposes the Trump administration’s dramatic cuts and politically driven revisions to the Department of State’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (human rights ...

People fleeing persecution and torture who are seeking refugee protection enjoy the fundamental right to apply for asylum under international law. That right, however, has been curtailed in many ...

Veterans for American Ideals, a nonpartisan Human Rights First initiative of veterans defending democracy and human rights, strongly condemns the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. and the ...

Our efforts include Project: Afghan Legal Assistance (PALA), where attorneys can help with legal resettlement issues, and the Evacuate Our Allies coalition, which advocates for protections for at-risk ...

The Alaska summit this Friday between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin must not sideline human rights or justice for victims of Russia’s war on Ukraine. “Any deal that ...

Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Portman, and esteemed members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this critical discussion on examining white supremacist violence in the ...

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