People who help migrants and asylum seekers at Poland's border with Belarus continue to be targeted by Polish authorities.

People who help migrants and asylum seekers at Poland's border with Belarus continue to be targeted by Polish authorities.

Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) helping migrants and asylum seekers at Poland's border with Belarus say Polish authorities continue to target them with prosecutions, interrogation and home searches. Man...

Despite the enormously difficult climate for human rights and those who defend them, over the last 12 months Human Rights First has been involved in a series of international courtroom successes invol...

Around 5am on Tuesday morning this week, Naji Fateel was woken up by police banging hard on his bedroom door. They grabbed and arrested the Bahraini Human Rights Defender, and took him into custody. Speaking today from jail, he described how startled he was at what happened, because in 2024, after spending a decade in prison for his human rights work, he was given a “Royal Pardon” and told was no longer wanted by the police. “They rushed into the house, terrifying the children, terrifying my mother, first thing in the morning. They dragged me out and put me on a bus,” he said.

Human Rights First today submitted a dossier of information to the Swedish police department dealing with international crimes, urging them to investigate Bahrain's Prince Nasser bin Hamad al Khalifa,...

More than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, and under continuing intense risk, local Human Rights Defenders in Ukraine say they are establishing the foundations for a post-war society und...

Part of the painful legacy of the conflict in the Northern Ireland is an ongoing failure to provide truth and accountability to bereaved families. Thousands of people were killed during the 1969-1998...

In Ukraine, reporting from the front lines can get you killed, while reporting on the powerful can get you assaulted, smeared or threatened with forced conscription. Russia poses by far the gravest da...

Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972

Lawyers, community workers, anti-racism activists, landlords and others serving migrants have faced death threats, arson threats, online harassment and abuse

Online directory had to be removed following last month’s violence

UK Supreme Court rules that the Bahraini government can be held to account for hacking laptops of people in Britain.

Hidden Histories of Empire: The Legacy of Colonialism

Some organisations said they no longer publicly advertise their services as a result of the targeting

The wrongful conviction of Osgur Breatnach for the Sallins train robbery half a century ago has now been declared a miscarriage of justice.

Local activists evacuating civilians from the front line of the war on Ukraine face a long list of dangers: artillery shelling, land mines, rockets, drones, large and small, and even capture by Russia...

In Northern Ireland, a horrific crime is being manipulated to justify racist violence and the targeting of migrants.

Human Rights First joins local human rights groups in Northern Ireland in condemning the knife attack in Belfast on Tuesday that left a man seriously injured, and in condemning too the ensuing large-s...

Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals, is dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.

By Brian Dooley, Human Rights First Senior Advisor