Category: Human Rights First

Two years removed from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the Russian LGBT community is still fighting for inclusion. Two[…]

Human Rights First welcomed the U.N. Security Council vote to elect former prime minister of Portugal António Guterres as the[…]

September 30th marked the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, Human Rights First applauds the Obama Administration for reaching its[…]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), continued to lose voters in the September 18 German state[…]

In a new analysis, Human Rights First found that asylum seekers and immigrants detained in Georgia are often held for long[…]

[9/21] Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi met with President Obama last week. It[…]

Yesterday [9/20] police took 28-year-old New York City bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami into custody after a shootout in Linden,[…]

Human Rights First applauded President Obama for hosting the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees, which brought together members of the international[…]

My trip to Gitmo last week to observe the military commission proceedings against 36-year-old Maryland resident Majid Khan was like an[…]

In a statement for the record submitted to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, Bosnian refugee and 20-year[…]