Human Rights First is working to secure a comprehensive response to the Iraqi refugee crisis. We have pressed the United States to bring some of the most vulnerable refugees to safety through a major resettlement initiative and to lead the international community in providing aid for refugees and those displaced within Iraq. We now call on the Obama administration and other international actors to ensure that Iraq’s displaced are not forced to return to their homes except under safe, voluntary, and dignified conditions. As the UN refugee agency said in May 2009, “The improvement of the situation in Iraq does not yet constitute fundamental changes sufficient to promote or encourage massive returns to Iraq.”
Washington, DC –Human Rights First is urging President Obama to use his State of the Union address to articulate what…
On Wednesday, President Obama delivered a major speech to the soldiers at Fort Bragg on the end of the war…
Yesterday, two major items regarding the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq made the news, and together they created a profound…
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President Obama’s announcement on Friday that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011, in…
Since the United States invaded Iraq more than six years ago, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled the country,…
As the international community responds to migrants and refugees fleeing Libya, the particular resettlement needs of refugees in Libya must…
By Jesse Bernstein, Senior Associate/Pennoyer Fellow and Sara Faust, Program Associate/Legal Assistant As religious minorities in the Middle East continue…
Washington, DC – This holiday season, thousands of Iraqi refugees – including Iraqi Christians and other religious and sexual minorities,…
The New York Times published an op-ed today by the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project at Yale Law School on the…
An article in the Nation magazine highlights the sad plight of Iraqi women who have fled their country to Syria…
Today’s Washington Post features a story on Iraqi refugees and the efforts being made by Eric Schwartz, the Assistant Secretary…
