A report released today by a panel of international human rights experts concludes that the British government operated a “widespread, systematic, and systemic” practice of impunity to protect ...

The Board of Directors of Human Rights First today announces the departure of President and CEO Michael Breen effective June 1, 2024, after more than five years leading the organization. A search for ...

We are writing to request that you publicly release any unclassified written guidance that the Office of Legal Counsel has issued regarding the conditions under which the U.S. government can lawfully ...

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 ...

Ensuring Safety and Support for Human Rights Defenders of Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Other Migrants Targeted by Illegal Pushback Policies, Extremist Attacks, and Harassment by Government Officials ...

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 ...

Human trafficking among children in India has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic. New Delhi alone has seen a 68% surge in trafficking cases since the global lockdown. Many of these cases go ...

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 and wrote about ...