Even the most authoritarian regimes care about their international reputation on human rights. This week, it was Egypt’s turn ...

In response to reports that the Trump administration is considering sending tens of thousand of migrants to Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights First President and CEO, Sue Hendrickson released the following ...

NEW YORK – Human Rights First announced today that climate rights activist and lawyer Dang Dinh Bach, jailed in Vietnam since June 2021, is the winner of the 2024 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty.

The right to asylum is under attack. For nearly 50 years, Human Rights First has been a leader in the asylum advocacy space, ...

In response to the Trump administration’s decision to freeze almost all foreign aid, Human Rights First’s President and CEO Sue Hendrickson issued the following statement: U.S. funding has been a ...

Washington, D.C. — In addition to the slew of anti-asylum, -refugee, and -immigrant orders that started the Trump administration’s tenure in office, a new directive issued on Thursday threatens over ...

Washington, D.C. – This week, the Trump administration announced its policy priorities and agenda in a series of cruel, brazenly overreaching executive orders that recklessly disregard human rights ...

Family detention is extremely costly and unnecessary. Instead of jailing families, the government has legal authority to release them to U.S. communities where they can safely wait for their cases to ...