Human Rights First
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
0 months
Description
Founded in 1978, Human Rights First (HRF) is an organization dedicated to realizing free and equal societies. For over forty years, HRF has held human rights offenders accountable and fortified systems that protect and uphold universal rights. HRF has established partnerships with the legal community, advocates, technologists, military veterans, security experts, and human rights supporters to strengthen its impact made through direct service and advocacy. These unique connections have offered HRF the tools to increase support for human rights from the public, private actors, and the U.S. government. With renewed Corporation support, HRF will continue its public policy advocacy in the United States and globally, focusing on reducing authoritarianism, extremism, and the misuse of technology.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1978, Human Rights First is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving human rights standards in the United States and around the world. Human Rights First advances research-based policies that strengthen the United States’ commitment to good governance and humanitarian protections, as well as provide legal and social services to asylum seekers and immigrant families in the United States. More recently, Human Rights First has been expanding its research and advocacy capacities on issues related to extremism and white supremacy and human rights abuses in the technology space. With Corporation support, Human Rights First will continue to assist victims of injustice (including refugees and asylum seekers), bring perpetrators of rights abuses to justice, and strengthen institutions dedicated to protecting universal human rights.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Despite there being an unprecedented 80 million people around the world who have been forcibly displaced from their homes, including 25.9 million refugees and 3.5 million asylum-seekers, the United States has been systematically dismantling its asylum and refugee resettlement systems. In addition to reducing the country’s cap on refugee admissions to historic lows, the current Administration has separated thousands of asylum-seeking families at the U.S.-Mexico border and made asylum standards more stringent and inflexible. Founded in 1978, Human Rights First is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting the respect of human rights and adherence to the rule of law, including the 1951 Refugee Convention. With Corporation support, Human Rights First will represent vulnerable clients who are seeking asylum in the United States, promote policies that honor the country’s longstanding commitment to protecting refugees, and challenge systematic abuses to the human rights of asylum seekers through strategic litigation.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 06, 2018
Duration
15 months
Description
Since 1978, Human Rights First has been working to protect refugees, hold human rights violators accountable, and advocate for policies that respect the rights of all people. Human Rights First has published numerous reports that have educated policymakers and the public about the effects of inhumane policies, such as the extended detention of asylum seeking families. In 2017, Human Rights First’s network of attorneys also donated more than 100,000 hours of pro bono legal services to refugees and asylum seekers. With Corporation support, Human Rights First will continue its work of safeguarding the U.S. asylum and refugee systems through 1) legal representation; 2) research, analysis, and advocacy; and 3) litigation. In addition to educating policymakers and other political leaders about the need to advance humane policies that respect the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, Human Rights First’s services will help put these vulnerable persons on the road to integration through reuniting them with their families, and helping them to obtain asylum and secure permissions to work.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
For more than thirty years, Human Rights First (HRF) has earned a reputation for pragmatic, results-oriented advocacy backed by sophisticated legal and policy analysis. With Corporation support, HRF will continue to focus its energies where its approach and strength can have the greatest impact on pressing global human rights challenges, including building durable human rights reforms in the Middle East, reversing the deteriorating environment in which human rights defenders operate in many countries, strengthening the rule of law in the United States, and improving state responses to terrorism and other threats to national security.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 06, 2014
Duration
24 months
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 15, 2011
Duration
24 months
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Project Title
Toward support
Date
Mar. 05, 2009
Duration
24 months
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Project Title
Toward its U.S. refugee protection program
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
12 months
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Toward support
Date
Mar. 03, 2005
Duration
12 months