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

On the first day of the Trump-Vance Administration, the President issued a host of anti-immigrant and -refugee Executive Orders that undermine our national security, tarnish our global reputation, and ...

Human Rights First announced today that climate rights activist and lawyer Dang Dinh Bach, jailed in Vietnam since June 2021, ...

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, DC – Human Rights First today called on Senators to exercise their Constitutional responsibility to oversee executive branch nominations and vote against confirming Peter Hegseth to serve ...

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 one million people ...

Detention of immigrant families inflicts irreversible harm. Medical experts, international authorities, members of Congress, faith leaders, human rights advocates, whistleblowers, the American Bar ...

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 and the rule of law.

Building from a first term riddled with policies that violated human rights, the incoming Trump administration has proposed a dangerous path for the future. Some of the policies championed by ...