Washington, DC – Human Rights First today praised U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Robert…
The United States’ proud history of providing refuge to victims of religious, political, ethnic and other forms of persecution has…
IACHR Report Blasts U.S. Immigration Detention Practices as “Disproportionate” and Inappropriately “Punitive” On March 17th the Inter-American Commission on Human…
HRF Releases a New Report on Iraqi Refugees In its newest report, Living in Limbo: Iraqi Refugees and U.S. Resettlement,…
Reports Reveal Filing Deadline Has Denied Asylum to Thousands of Refugees and Wastes Government Resources A new Human Rights First…
One-Year Anniversary of ICE Detention Reforms August 6th marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
Asylum News–May/June 2010 Celebrating World Refugee Day 2010 On June 20th, Human Rights First joined refugees, the U.N. High Commissioner…
Asylum News–February 2010 Register now for “Renewing U.S. Commitment to Refugee Protection: the 30th Anniversary of the Refugee Act of…
Asylum News–April/May 2010 Eliminate the Arbitrary One-Year Bar to Asylum Human Rights First, along with 86 other faith-based, human rights,…
Human Rights First Releases a New Report on the Impact the Terrorism Bars Continue to Have upon Asylum Seekers and…
ICE implements new guidance on parole from detention for asylum seekers On January 4, 2010, a new policy by the…
Asylum News–March 2010 Recommendations for Reform on the 30th Anniversary of the Refugee Act On March 16, 2010, during its…