By Sydney Randall In 2019, a family of tomato farmers in Mexico experienced a scorching summer. There was “too much sun, too much heat – the whole crop dried up. We lost everything,” the mother of the ...

Targeted sanctions like the Global Magnitsky program are valuable tools for the U.S. government to respond to corruption and human rights abuses around the world.  While the executive branch generally ...

By Brian Dooley In 2017, I went to the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine when I heard that local anti-corruption activists were being harassed and attacked by the local mayor’s office. I met them ...

A few months ago in Tijuana, Mexico, our Director of Research and Analysis for Refugee Protection Christina Asenico met two couples from Russia – three of the four individuals identified as ...

Join us for the ImmTech Project Showcase, a groundbreaking event where innovation meets humanity to advance immigrant rights. Organized by Human Rights First, this virtual showcase brings together the ...

“Being a human rights activist in Afghanistan – especially for women’s rights – it is impossible to live a simple life without risk,” Halima started, patting the soft pink chadar covering her head.

A group of staff from Human Rights First recently traveled to Montgomery, Alabama to understand more about the Black American civil rights experience. We traced the 1965 civil rights march from Selma ...

In a world where information is power, the erosion of press freedom strikes at the core of democracy itself. In 2024, the fight for truth has never been more crucial, and the stakes have never been ...

From Karachi to Peshawar to Quetta to Islamabad, millions of Afghans and other migrants have spent decades making their homes in Pakistan. Last year, the interim government of Pakistan announced a ...

Dear members of the U.S. Congress, I am one of the women who has worked for years with the United States government and their partners to promote peace, women’s rights, and human rights in Afghanistan ...