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This briefing provides an overview of recent developments in the U.S., UK, EU, Canadian, and Australian governments’ use of targeted human rights and anticorruption sanctions programs from July 1, ...

Activists in Egypt accuse the European Union of not using their leverage with the Cairo government to better protect them and to press for human rights. A range of dissidents told me during a research ...

Human Rights First today urged the Polish government to lift the suspension on people’s right to claim asylum at the Poland-Belarus border, and to stop targeting people providing humanitarian aid to ...

Columbia University student Yunseo Chung came to this country with her family at the age of seven. Even though she is a lawful permanent resident of the United States, the Trump administration ...

As Pakistan’s latest deadline for a new wave of deportations and detentions of Afghans approaches on April 10, Human Rights First calls on the government of Pakistan to halt returns of people at risk ...

International human rights organizations urge the governments of Costa Rica and Panama to address human rights abuses resulting from their agreement to receive families and adults unlawfully prevented ...

Human Rights First unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s executive order, “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” eliminating the Department of ...