A legal breakthrough in Pakistan… and talks at the United Nations
It’s been called “historic,” “groundbreaking,” and a “milestone in Pakistani history.” And it was. Last week the Islamabad High Court…
11-27-2012
Inadequate Hate Crimes Reporting Undermines OSCE Report
New York City – Human Rights First and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued a paper critiquing inadequate government responses to…
11-16-2012
Punitive Psychiatry Making a Comeback in Russia?
By now, it seems that everyone has heard of the Russian female punk collective Pussy Riot. Yet the band’s prosecution…
10-22-2012
OIC Head Takes Global Blasphemy Ban Off the Table, Member Nations Pursue Policy
Washington, DC – Human Rights First today welcomed the statement by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation…
10-17-2012
Pussy Riot: One Out, Two to Go (to Prison)
Pussy Riot’s Yekaterina Samutsevich is now free, but Moscow’s city court upheld two-year sentences for bandmates Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Mariya…
10-10-2012
