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August 24, 2017
For a country searching for answers after Charlottesville, the people of Boston provided some.
In Boston, the “Free Speech Coalition” holding the rally claimed it wasn’t promoting white supremacy...
August 18, 2017
Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First today welcomed reports that White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is leaving his position in the Trump Administration. Prior to his White House appointment,...
August 15, 2017
Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First today strongly condemned President Trump’s statements assigning blame to “both sides” for the horrific violence against counter-protestors at a neo-...
August 13, 2017
New York City--Human Rights First today strongly condemns the hateful gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, and urges President Trump to speak out clearly and forcefully...
August 08, 2017
By Chelsea Wilson Miller
After more than four years, the case against the Nationalist Socialist Underground—a German neo-Nazi group—will finally come to an end this year. Closing arguments began...
August 03, 2017
By Adam Nagy
Passed on June 30, a new German hate speech law imposes heavy fines on social media companies that fail to swiftly remove prohibited content. Its proponents have lauded the bill as...
July 19, 2017
By Chelsea Wilson Miller
First, the good news: Canada has largely resisted the ethno-populism that’s swept through other Western democracies in recent years.
The ethno-populists who’ve risen in...
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Report | 2017
Germany is at a tipping point as it heads into important national elections in 2017. Hate crimes, particularly those associated with xenophobia, have increased drastically—from 5,858 cases in 2014 to 10,373 in 2015. From 2014 to 2015 crimes against asylum refugee shelters,
Issue Brief | March 08, 2018
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On January 23, 2018, through the generous support of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Human Rights First hosted a public conference entitled, “Fake News, Free Speech, and Foreign...
| March 05, 2018
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On January 26, 2018, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, members of the Polish parliament introduced an amendment to the country’s 1998 Act on the...
Factsheet | March 05, 2018
The U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism
What is the Special Envoy?
The special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism works on behalf of the secretary of state to...
| December 08, 2017
The 2013-14 Euromaidan protests brought down the corrupt government of President Viktor Yanukovych and offered Ukrainians the prospect a brighter and freer future. Four years later, however, momentum...
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