Washington, D.C. — A new report released today by ICE Flight Monitor, housed at Human Rights First, exposes the human toll of the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. In September 2025 the ...

On July 12, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subcommittee held ...

Thank you, Dean Byrne, Director Sviridov, Provost Meeks, and distinguished faculty members for this extraordinary honor and one that I never imagined was possible. I’d like to think my late mother is ...

Bahrain’s ruling family has returned to its severe repression of a decade and a half ago in the context of the United States’ war on Iran. It has embarked on a fresh wave of arrests, stripping ...

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics, that are legally ...

Washington, D.C. — In March 2026, overall U.S. immigration enforcement flights reached a record high of 1,794, a 122% increase over March 2025, according to Human Rights First’s latest ICE Flight ...

Women human rights defenders (WHRDS) are taking enormous daily risks to help vulnerable people living on the frontline of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Some deliver humanitarian aid to those in desperate ...

Washington, D.C. — Human Rights First and RAICES today released a new joint report, “A New Era of ICE Family Prisons,” exposing the pervasive abuses against families and children in the custody of the ...

In early 2025, the second Trump administration began detaining immigrant families and children, and by April, the Dilley Immigration Processing Center (“Dilley”) became the sole active family ...

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics, that are legally ...