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网页Human Rights First and our coalition of retired military leaders successfully advocate for the McCain Amendment, banning “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”. Our coalition of retired flag officers advocate for the banning of torture, then stand with President Obama when he signs an Executive Order to do it.
Recommendations for Equitable Access to Asylum and Ports of Entry
网页2024年9月16日 · The Biden administration should take urgent steps to ensure prompt and non-discriminatory access to U.S. ports of entry for people seeking asylum. The administration described its May 2023 and June 2024 asylum bans as imposing consequences against noncitizens crossing between ports of entry in order to “incentivize” people seeking asylum to “use … lawful, safe, […]
Assessment: U.S. Compliance with the Refugee Convention at its …
网页As the world marks the 70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention on July 28, 2021, the United States continues to flout its legal obligations under the Convention, endangering lives, failing to lead by example in upholding human rights and undermining refugee law globally. While the Biden administration has taken steps towards ending some ...
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网页Our Work in Ukraine. Human Rights First has been meaningfully engaged on human rights issues in Eastern Europe for decades, and particularly active with Ukrainian allies since the first…. Learn More.
网页Human Rights First 2021 ANNUAL REPORT. uman Rights First 2021ANNUAL REPORTFrom its opening days on the steps of the United States Capitol, 2021 showed us that we cannot aford to take human rights and democracy for granted anywhere – and reminded us of the power we have. when we rise together to defend them. This has been a …
Human Rights First Welcomes Resettlement, Condemns Bars to …
网页2023年4月27日 · Human Rights First has repeatedly documented human rights abuses inflicted by the Title 42 policy, including over 13,000 attacks against migrants and asylum seekers blocked in or expelled to Mexico under Title 42 during the Biden administration. The organization has also repeatedly detailed the harms …
Human Rights First Lauds Bill to Modernize American Refugee …
网页2022年12月22日 · WASHINGTON D.C. – Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced the Refugee Protection Act of 2022, which would modernize and strengthen U.S. refugee protection and resettlement programs through updates to key provisions from the Refugee Protection Act of 2019. Human Rights First applauds this effort and the leadership of Senator Leahy and […]
Asylum: Seek Asylum - Human Rights First
网页Asylum is a legal status that the U.S. government can grant to people who are at risk of harm in their home countries because of who they are—because of their religion, political opinion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, for example—if the governments in their home countries will not protect them. The process for seeking asylum in the ...
Human Rights First Welcomes New U.S. Sanctions Targeting …
网页2022年12月14日 · Washington, D.C. – On Friday, the U.S. government enacted sanctions targeting 90 people and entities involved in human rights abuses and corruption across 17 countries. “Many of the U.S. government’s sanctions aligned with our calls to use Global Magnitsky sanctions to address human trafficking and abuses against certain marginalized victims,” said Adam Keith, Director of […]
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