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Sending Migrants to Guantanamo Would be a Cruel, Costly, Credibility-Torching Mistake
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 ...
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Refugees & Asylum
The right to asylum is under attack. For nearly 50 years, Human Rights First has been a leader in the asylum advocacy space, ...
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Freeze in Foreign Aid Harms Human Rights Defenders, Damages U.S. Interests
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 ...
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Jailed Vietnamese Human Rights Defender Wins Baldwin Medal of Liberty
Human Rights First announced today that climate rights activist and lawyer Dang Dinh Bach, jailed in Vietnam since June 2021, ...
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More than 1 Million People Who Entered the United States with Government Authorization Are Threatened with Summary Deportation
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 ...
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Human Rights First Condemns Rights-Violating Executive Orders
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.
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Jailing Immigrant Families Inflicts Severe Harms and Wastes Resources
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 ...