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(Redirected from Human Rights First Award) US-based non-profit organization This article is about the US-based human rights organization. For the Saudi Arabian human rights organization, see Human Rights First Society.

Human Rights First

Formation	1978
Headquarters	New York, New York
President/CEO	Michael Breen (human rights activist)
Former President	Michael Posner
Website	humanrightsfirst.org

Human Rights First (formerly known as the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights) is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3), international human rights organization based in New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Its work centers on four main issue areas: authoritarianism, extremism, systemic injustice and the abuse of technology. It closely works with lawyers, veterans and security experts, technologists, and allied advocates to further its policy agenda. In 2004, it launched an "End Torture Now" campaign. The organization also runs the Fighting Discrimination program which focuses on hate crimes.

Board of directors

Human Rights First is governed by a board of directors composed of 92 members, including a 30-person Board of Advocates and a 13-person Emeritus Board.

Members of the board include:

Jay Carney, Global Head of Policy and Communications at Airbnb
Sarah Cleveland, Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights Columbia University Law School
Ben Jealous, Executive Director of the Sierra Club
Kerry Kennedy, President of RFK Human Rights
Robert A. Mandell, former Ambassador to Luxembourg; Chairman and CEO of Greater Properties, Inc. (Ret.)
Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President at IHS Markit
Nazanin Rafsanjani, former head of New Show Development at Gimlet Media and Spotify
Mona Sutphen, Senior Advisor at The Vistria Group

Selected publications

The War Against Children: South Africa’s Youngest Victims, Desmond Tutu, 1986. ISBN 9780934143004
Vigilantes in the Philippines: A Threat to Democratic Rule, Diane Orentlicher, 1988. ISBN 9780934143035
Refuge Denied: Problems in the Protection of Vietnamese and Cambodians in Thailand and the Admission of Indochinese Refugees into the United States, Albert Santoli, 1989. ISBN 9780934143202
Paper Laws, Steel Bayonets: Breakdown of the Rule of Law in Haiti, Elliot Schrage, 1990. ISBN 9780934143387
Childhood Abducted: Children Cutting Sugar Cane in the Dominican Republic, Theresa A. Amato, 1991. ISBN 9780934143424

References

IRS Form 1023 Application for Recognition of Exemption. (1982). Human Rights First website Archived 2016-10-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2 December 2018.
"Human Rights First". www.charitywatch.org. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
About Us, humanrightsfirst.org
"Human Rights First Leader to Speak". today.duke.edu. 14 March 2007. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
"Board Archives". Human Rights First. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
Oprysko, Caitlin. "FARA chief leaves DOJ". POLITICO. Retrieved 2021-05-17.

External links

Interview with Michael Posner from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Interview with Tad Stahnke from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

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