Articles by Human Rights First
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Follow the Rainbow-Bricked Road: The Olympic Flame’s Journey through Russia’s Antigay Provinces
Innokenty Grekov - Human Rights First,
28 Oct 2013
This page will be updated as the torch lighting events arrive in the cities below. Homophobia is widespread in Russia, you all know that by now, and President Vladimir Putin’s government has proved itself willing to exploit it.
→ read full articleWhat They Really Said: Obama and Clinton on LGBT Rights and Foreign Assistance
Tad Stahnke, Human Rights First – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2011
Earlier today [6 Dec 2011], the Obama Administration released a memorandum to federal agencies on initiatives to advance the human rights of LGBT people. An hour later, Secretary Clinton delivered a speech before the U.N. in Geneva that reaffirmed the policy articulated by president that LGBT rights are human rights. Despite the headlines coming out of those two announcements, neither said anything about conditioning foreign aid on the protection of LGBT rights.
→ read full articleIntergovernmental Report: Hate Crime Remains a Serious Problem in Europe and North America
Human Rights First – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today [17 Nov 2010] released its annual report for 2009 “Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region – Incidents and Responses,” concluding that hate crime continued to be a serious problem in many of the 56 countries in North America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. This is the first study since the passage of the notable 2009 Ministerial Council Decision 9/09, in which participating countries upheld unanimously their commitment to collect and publicize detailed statistics on hate crime.
→ read full articleEU’S LUCKY CHARM: IRELAND SUPPORTS LISBON TREATY – NOW WHAT?
Joelle Fiss, Human Rights First Pennoyer Fellow,
9 Oct 2009
BRUSSELS, October 3, 2009 – "This is a day of celebration for Ireland and for Europe", chuckled former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt to the press from a smoke-filled Irish pub in the heart of the European Union headquarters in Brussels. As EU staffers and journalists huddled around him, Verhofstadt was watching the live TV […]
→ read full articleTHE ST. LOUIS REFUGEE SHIP BLUES: ART SPIEGELMAN RECOUNTS A SAD STORY 70 YEARS LATER
Human Rights First-USA,
22 Jun 2009
In this cartoon commentary in The Washington Post on World Refugee Day [June 20], Spiegelman uses the familiar character from his graphic novel, Maus, to look back on how we treated refugees in 1939 – notably the refusal of the U.S. to grant entry to 900 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Spiegelman connects this to the […]
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