The Women’s Refugee Commission joined more than 80 other organizations in a letter urging the Department of Justice and Homeland Security to rescind harmful regulations that limit access to asylum...
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The Women’s Refugee Commission joined more than 80 other organizations in a letter urging the Department of Justice and Homeland Security to rescind harmful regulations that limit access to asylum...
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The U.S. government should immediately and publicly commit to ending the use of solitary confinement in U.S. immigration detention, demanded a coalition of 194 medical, academic, faith, human rights,...
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We, the undersigned 150+ international, national, state, local, and faith-based organizations, are deeply alarmed at reports that you may wield your executive power to further endanger asylum seekers...
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The Honorable Alejandro N. Mayorkas Secretary US Department of Homeland Security Washington, D.C., 20528 Dear Secretary Mayorkas, Since November 2022, when the United Nations High Commissioner for...
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August 2, 2023 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden, The undersigned 203 civil, human rights, and...
Author: Brian Dooley Published on May 24, 2023 Within minutes of Russian troops crossing the border into Ukraine at the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, they were in the small...
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Authors: Julia Neusner Kennji Kizuka Eleanor Acer For nearly two years, the Biden administration has wielded the Trump administration’s Title 42 policy to block people from seeking asylum at official...
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The undersigned organizations condemn the Biden administration’s decision, with the cooperation of the Government of Mexico, to expand Title 42. Under this policy, since the October 12th...
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ENSURE SAFE RECEPTION OF PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM AT THE BORDER PROVIDE DIGNIFIED RECEPTION AND LEGAL INFORMATION AT BORDER SHELTER NETWORKS ESTABLISH ACCESS TO SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND A FAIR, ORDERLY...
We, the undersigned organizations, call on the United Nations Security Council and UN member states to urgently institute a coordinated, global arms embargo on Myanmar in response to the February 1,...
In this letter, NRC and 29 organisations call on the United States Congress to speak out unequivocally on the humanitarian consequences for Yemen if plans to designate Ansar Allah as a terrorist...
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The U.S. government has exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to further eviscerate humanitarian and human rights protections for immigrants and people seeking asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border. Since...
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Public Health Measures to Safely Manage Asylum Seekers and Children at the Border The United States has the ability to both safeguard public health in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis and safeguard...
Over five years of brutal war in Yemen have left millions of Yemenis weakened by malnutrition and disease, and decimated Yemen’s health system. The imminent threat of COVID-19 will exacerbate an...
Amnesty International USA, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA, Human Rights First, Physicians for Human Rights, Refugees International, and Women’s Refugee Commission call on the...
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In response to the January 31st announcement by the White House of the Department of Defense’s new landmine policy, we, the undersigned organizations, strongly condemn the Trump Administration’s...
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Dear President López Obrador, Secretary Sanchez, and Secretary Ebrard: Our organizations – some of which wrote to you earlier this month – are writing now to express concern over yesterday’s...
The undersigned local, regional, and international organizations follow with great concern the military operations across Yemen and the collapsed September 2018 Geneva peace talks. The Yemen war has...
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Inaction Will Enable Further Abuse of Vulnerable Rohingya (New York) – The United Nations Security Council should take prompt, concerted, and effective international action to respond to Myanmar’s...
Dear Mr. President, We write on behalf of 10 non-governmental organizations with experience and expertise on the ongoing crisis in Syria regarding your upcoming meeting with Russian President...