Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First today announced that its board of directors has chosen Michael Breen as the organization’s next president and chief executive officer. Breen, who...
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July 08, 2020
July 9, 2020 ⎯ The Sentry, Human Right First, and Freedom House joined with twenty-one other non-governmental organizations today in urging the United States government to utilize the Global...
July 08, 2020
New proposed rules paradoxically ban people from places with high incidence of COVID-19, even as the United States leads the world in number of cases
WASHINGTON - Human Rights First condemns the...
July 06, 2020
WASHINGTON — Tech companies should follow the lead of Telegram, Facebook and WhatsApp in refusing to comply with requests for user data to Hong Kong authorities, Human Rights First said today.
The...
July 06, 2020
WASHINGTON - Human Rights First today congratulated the UK government for joining the growing community of states using targeted sanctions to deny perpetrators of significant human rights abuses...
July 02, 2020
WASHINGTON — Human Rights First announced today the death on June 28 of longtime board member Lewis B. Kaden who died at age 78 after being injured in a fall.
Mike Breen, president and CEO of...
July 01, 2020
Washington, D.C. - On June 30, Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down President Trump’s second asylum ban, ending a restrictive policy that had...
June 30, 2020
WASHINGTON - The new national security law imposed on Hong Kong today by the Chinese government will likely be devastating to human rights in Hong Kong, and the United States government should react...
June 25, 2020
WASHINGTON - In its decision today in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, a majority of the Supreme Court ruled that asylum seekers placed in expedited removal proceedings upon...
June 24, 2020
WASHINGTON — Human Rights First is alarmed at reports that journalist Nora Younis was arrested at her office in Maadi earlier today. She was recognized with a Human Rights Defender award by Human...
June 22, 2020
WASHINGTON - Human Rights First condemns the Trump administration’s new rule, slated to be issued on June 26, banning and delaying legal work authorizations for most asylum seekers while they wait...
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