The United States’ bid for support in its fight against the ICC creates an opportunity to push back on its attempt to dismantle the Court.

The United States’ bid for support in its fight against the ICC creates an opportunity to push back on its attempt to dismantle the Court.

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The “Leahy Laws,” named after former U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, refer to two statutory provisions that prohibit the U.S. government (USG) from providing assistance to any unit of a foreign country’s ...

By Nina Moraitou-Politzi Targeted financial sanctions have become a key tool in holding perpetrators of serious human rights abuse and acts of corruption to account, while also helping deter others fr...

Press contacts: Human Rights First: press@humanrightsfirst.org Transparency International U.S.: sgreytak@us.transparency.org Washington, D.C. — Today, Human Rights First and Transparency International...

An Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador was a blunt example of Mr. Trump’s defiance of the federal courts.

The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

The Labor Department is canceling $500 million allocated to programs that combat child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and abusive practices in more than 40 countries.

Four survivors of Japan’s “hostage justice” filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, contending that the Code of Criminal Procedure provisions allowing prolonged pretrial detention and...

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, 2024, to December 31, 2024. Downl...

Human Rights First welcomes the reported arrest of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant as a major step toward justice for the victims and sur...

A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

The new U.S. sanctions program targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC) that was announced by executive order on February 6 differs in only minor respects from the sanctions program created in...

The order accuses the Hague-based body of creating a "shameful moral equivalency" between Hamas and Israel, the White House says.

To H.E. Kaja Kallas, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission We are the Ukrainian civil society organisations working on justice a...

NEW YORK – Human Rights First announced today that climate rights activist and lawyer Dang Dinh Bach, jailed in Vietnam since June 2021, is the winner of the 2024  Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty. T...

Washington, D.C. – Human Rights First today called on the U.S. government to impose targeted financial and visa sanctions on a senior Egyptian official and a U.S. company for their apparent involvemen...

On HRD Day, we want to recognize our local human rights defenders (HRDs) in Kharkiv and their incredible work since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Our senior…

Full Committee Hearing on December 5, 2024 at 5:30 AM Additional witnesses may be added...

Full Committee Hearing on December 5, 2024 at 5:30 AM Additional witnesses may be added...

WASHINGTON — Today, on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning three former Government of Uzbekistan...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday issued arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister, its former defense minister, and a Hamas leader whose reported death is not yet confirmed.  Hum...

In our November 13, 2024, webinar, Mobilizing Action for Political Prisoners, Human Rights First brought together human rights experts, advocates, and family members of formerly arbitrarily detained i...

Human Rights First and our partners in the targeted human rights and anti-corruption sanctions coalition lead “Magnitsky Month” to advocate for the expanded and improved multilateral use of Magnitsky-...