Immigration Reform Bill to Contain Key Protections for Asylum Seekers, Refugees
Washington, D.C. – Human Rights First today said the immigration reform bill expected to head to the Senate floor after it…
5-21-2013
LISTEN: The CIA Shapes the #Torture Debate
Four years after President Obama signed an executive order to ban torture, we’re still debating whether it saved American lives. Why? Because the most authoritative record of the CIA’s post-9/11 “enhanced interrogation” program remains classified.
News broke recently that the CIA has edited the script for the Academy-Award winning film, Zero Dark Thirty,–raising much needed attention to the CIA’s role in actively shaping the torture debate. Human Rights First’s Raha Wala joins us in the podcast.
5-21-2013
Social Media and Social Change in the Gulf
A Bahraini court has sentenced six people to a year in prison for the crime of insulting the king, Hamad…
5-20-2013
Administration Urged to Protect LGBTI Rights
New York City – Human Rights First today marked International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia by urging the United States…
5-17-2013
Protecting LGBTI Refugees from Violence
As the world celebrates International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people who…
5-17-2013
Murder in South Africa Highlights Need for Hate Crime Laws
As South Africa provides leadership on LGBT rights, it needs to take further steps to protect LGBT people from violence.…
5-17-2013
Honduran LGBT Activist Found Safety in the United States
Four years ago, Ana Patricia Centeno, a lesbian and Honduran LGBT activist, was granted asylum in the United States. After…
5-17-2013
Massimino Urges Kerry to Probe Rosoboronexport Sales to Syria
Washington, DC – As Secretary of State John Kerry continues to discuss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov toward peace…
5-17-2013