NGOs are calling for the US to participate in the UN human rights review after its boycott last year. This boycott by the Trump administration drew criticism over alleged abuses.

Major win in the DVD v. DHS case today: the First Circuit has ruled that the third-country deportation policy is unlawful. https://t.co/2ndtcQJk2o

This Global Alliance could not come at a more critical time, for a multilateral human rights system under siege. The U.S. government campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court and bully St...

Read the open letter to Xi Jinping from human rights groups urging prisoner releases and an end to transnational repression.

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...

In a report released today, ICE Flight Monitor, housed at Human Rights First, reveals that the Trump administration conducted at least 325 removal flights to 40 countries throughout August, subjecting...

“This administration seems to have no bottom when it comes to cruelty and for overtly sending people to danger.”

Today, Human Rights First (HRF) and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR) recommended the Canadian government impose sanctions against El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and other sen...

Alianza Americas hace un llamado al secretario Mullin para que cumpla con la ley y publique una decisión oficial que brinde claridad a las comunidades afectadas.

Today, Human Rights First (HRF) and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR) recommended the Canadian government impose sanctions against El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and other sen...

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The 20-year-old was fitted with a tracking device under a Trump administrative initiative targeting Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.

The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries where they have no ties. Dozens were on the latest flight, to the Central African Republic.

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...

Washington D.C.—Over the last 24 hours, ICE Flight Monitor, housed at Human Rights First, has tracked multiple forced third country transfers from the United States to Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Came...

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.

Today, immigration legal service providers and advocacy organizations filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new interim final rule that allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to send...

Today, Human Rights First and Refugees International released an update of its Banished by Bargain: Third Country Deportation Watch tracker that exposes the growing scale, secrecy, and human toll of t...

August 15, 2026 Evacuate Our Allies Coalition Statement Marking Five Years Since the U.S. Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) in Afghanistan

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...

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 January 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026. Downloa...

For 75 years, the 1951 Refugee Convention has served as a global commitment to protect refugees, and as a tool for states to manage global displacement. But today, many of the world’s 41 million refug...

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...

The immigrants aboard Flight 164 were pursuing lives in the U.S. when ICE detained them. In Venezuela, they were held in a building that collapsed hours later.