A coalition of 22 immigrants’ rights organizations participated today in a public hearing held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as part of the IACHR’s 195th session held in ...

End of Year Update This briefing provides an overview of recent developments in the U.S. government’s use of its targeted human rights and anticorruption sanctions programs from July 1, 2025 to ...

Human Rights First deplores U.S. attacks against Iran, carried out alongside Israel, without authorization from Congress or the United Nations Security Council. This unlawful action escalates conflict ...

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics, that are legally ...

Boston, Massachusetts – The National Immigration Litigation Alliance, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and Human Rights First welcome today’s decision from the U.S. District Court for the ...

Belfast, Northern Ireland — Human Rights First today welcomes the decision of Belfast’s Court of Appeal to formally acquit Patrick Laurence O’Neill, convicted in 1972 and sentenced to 15 years’ ...

This week marks fifteen years since Bahraini authorities violently crushed peaceful pro-democracy protests, unleashing a campaign of arbitrary detention and torture. After more than a decade of ...

In a report released today to mark this week’s anniversaries of the 2014 and 2022 Russian invasions, human rights activists in Ukraine warn that whether or not ongoing peace talks with Russia produce ...

Local activists in Ukraine warn that whether or not ongoing peace talks with Russia produce a breakthrough, many of the country’s most serious human rights challenges will persist long after the ...

Washington, D.C. — ICE Air Operations has been dramatically expanded under the second Trump administration, operating with minimal transparency or public oversight. Human Rights First’s ICE Flight ...