The following is the statement of Human Rights First President and CEO, Sue Hendrickson, on the 2024 presidential election.  With the results of the 2024 election, the United States has entered a ...

Human Rights First Comment on the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security’s Final Rule on Securing the Border, USCIS Docket No. USCIS 2024-0006; A.G. Order No. 6053-2024 For a year and a half, ...

Q&A with Human Rights First’s Associate Directors of Democracy Protection, Hanah Stiverson and Elizabeth Yates.  What does ...

This coming Thursday, October 31, Latvian Woman Human Rights Defender Ieva Raubiško is expecting to hear if she is going to prison for helping people trying to seek protection near the border with ...

Content warning: the following piece discusses topics of homophobia, violence, and rape. I always get culture shock whenever I’m in a place like New York or Washington, D.C. I am not used to being ...

Please note: This recording has a delayed start and begins 8 minutes into the discussion due to a technical issue. We apologize for any inconvenience. Presented by Human Rights First’s Emerging ...

The Human Rights First Spotlight Award celebrates individuals or organizations who exemplify inspiration, innovation, elevation, and uniqueness in their advocacy for human rights. In 2024, the ...

Human Rights First’s former client, Gema Valle, was a teacher in Nicaragua before she was forced to flee the country due to her support of the 2018 student-led social uprising. She came to the U.S.