As we mark Human Rights Day, your support for the work of Human Rights First could not be more necessary or urgent. At Human Rights First we imagine a world where every person can live a life of ...

Adam Keith, Senior Director for Accountability Thank you, Chairman Cardin and Ranking Member Risch, for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions and for the opportunity ...

Digital harassment, violence against women, girls, and gender minorities, and a rollback in reproductive rights—these might seem like a random grab bag of issues impacting our world, but they are in ...

By Tina Pai, Jason Yoon, and Mike Patraw, Innovation Lab fellows In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, civic engagement is more important than ever, especially as elections continue to shape ...

Authoritarian regimes around the world regularly use arbitrary detention as a tool of repression to silence dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists, and other perceived government critics and ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday issued arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister, its former defense minister, and a Hamas leader whose reported death is not yet confirmed.

This week, the family of murdered Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane testified at hearings in the United States Congress about the independent inquiry into his killing promised to them by the ...

Please join our asylum experts Robyn Barnard and Jenna Gilbert for a roundtable discussion on the impact of the 2024 election. Our experts will discuss what asylum and immigration-related changes we ...

Dear Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Wicker, Chairman Rogers, and Ranking Member Smith: As Senate and House conferees meet to discuss their differing versions of the FY 2025 National Defense ...

Evgenia Kara-Murza, International Advocacy Director at the Free Russia Foundation and advocate for her husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident and former political prisoner detained for over ...