Today, as President Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to announce new military aid for Ukraine, human rights advocates note that supporting Ukraine effectively will have to include ...

Secretary Rubio’s unjust, cruel, and unprecedented firing of over 1,300 dedicated State Department public servants decimates U.S. diplomacy and weakens Americans’ well-being. Let’s be clear who loses ...

In response to Secretary of State Rubio’s firing of over 1,400 State Department employees, Human Rights First President and CEO Uzra Zeya said the following: Non-partisan, selfless public service is ...

Today, the United States Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in a nationwide ...

Join us for an urgent national call to learn how the reconciliation bill threatens core protections, civil liberties, and our democracy—and what we can do together to stop it. This bill, if passed in ...

Human Rights First strongly condemns the passage of the reconciliation bill, describing it as a historic rollback of legal protections for children, refugees, and other survivors of persecution.

Dear Secretary Hegseth, As organizations representing thousands of military veterans and their families across the United States, we write to express our concern regarding reported proposed cuts to ...

By Will Gronefeld, Joe Brand Human Rights Fellow Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has entered its fourth year, and Russian leaders have faced few repercussions for their actions. Despite ...

In response to today’s ruling by the Supreme Court, which allows the government to send eight men currently in Djibouti to war-torn South Sudan despite their hailing from other nations, Human Rights ...

New York, NY — Human Rights First today deplored the State Department’s misuse of financial sanctions to target a United Nations special rapporteur on the basis of her advocacy for action by the ...

Human Rights First (HRF) travelled to northeastern Syria to meet with human rights defenders as the country goes through a massive transition following the December 2024 overthrow of the Assad ...

Today, nine organizations representing thousands of military veterans and their families across the United States wrote to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth expressing concern regarding proposed cuts ...