For over 30 years, Human Rights First (HRF) has worked to build respect for human rights and the rule of law, to help ensure the dignity to which each person is entitled. HRF is seeking a Program Assistant for Government Advocacy to work with three programs: Crimes Against Humanity, Fighting Discrimination, and Human Rights Defenders. The Program Assistant for Government Advocacy provides...
This paper outlines a range of views among the civil society organizations listed below regarding climate financing options and is intended to contribute to the work of the UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance.
Human Rights First was founded in 1978 to promote laws and policies that advance universal rights and freedoms. We exist to protect and defend the dignity of each individual through respect for human rights and the rule of law. Human Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims of discrimination, those whose rights are eroded in the name of national security, and...
In advance of the USITW meeting tomorrow - a clarification since some libertarians are assoicated with the Tea Party.
As noted by my colleague David Boaz
Michael Gerson...
In advance of the USITW meeting tomorrow - a clarification since some libertarians are assoicated with the Tea Party.
As noted by my colleague David Boaz
Michael Gerson...
In advance of the USITW meeting tomorrow - a clarification since some libertarians are assoicated with the Tea Party.
As noted by my colleague David Boaz
Michael Gerson...
In advance of the USITW meeting tomorrow - a clarification since some libertarians are assoicated with the Tea Party.
As noted by my colleague David Boaz
Michael Gerson...
POMED (The Project on Middle East Democracy), is looking to rent out one large room from our third floor suite in Dupont Circle (1820 Jefferson Pl). It's a beautiful, sun-lit space:
POMED (The Project on Middle East Democracy),
is looking to rent out one large room from our third floor suite in
Dupont Circle (1820 Jefferson Pl). It's a beautiful, sun-lit space:
World Policy Journal's 2010 Summer issue takes an in-depth look at
the global health crisis. Writers in India, Brazil and France take us
inside the medical systems that spend, respectively, $30, $300 and
$3,000 on health care per person per year. While the differences are
critical, the similarities are all too often frightening. From London,
an investigation into the global spread of pharmaceutical
counterfeiting. In Ghana, a story that e...
PENNOYER FELLOW, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY PROGRAM
...It's
obvious to everyone that post-Saddam Iraq has an array of internal
weaknesses. Hatred between Sunnis and Shiites exploded into near civil
war in 2006 -...
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS PROGRAM DIRECTOR
For
more than 30 years, HRF has worked in the United States and abroad to
create a more secure and humane world by advancing justice, human
dignity and respect for the rule of law.
Human Rights First
protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of
crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims
of discrimination, human right...
by Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble
Benjamin
Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies
at the Cato Institute, where C...
For more than 30 years, HRF has worked in the
Application deadline: July 20, 2010
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Hours per week: Full time, exempt
Compensation: Depends on experience. Full benefits (paid vacation, health, dental) are provided.
Summary Description
NAPF
is seeking a Director of Development at its headquarters in Santa
Barbara, CA. T...
On May 8th Partners for Global Change took on a nuclear issue. With
President Obama's bold statement on the policy of using nuclear weapons
to the historic signing of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
(START) between the United States and Russia, to Washington, D.C.
hosting 47 countries as part of the President's Nuclear Summit to next
month's Nuclear Proliferation Treaty conference in New York at the
United Nations we are being bombarde...
The Organization:
WAND
(Women's Action for New Directions) is a national, non-profit
organization which works to educate the public and opinion leaders about
the need to reduce violence and militarism in society, and redirect
excessive military spending to unmet human and environmental needs.
WAND operates two non-profit organizations with one united vision. WAND Education fund is a non-...
Over at National Journal’s National Security Experts blog, this week’s question revolves around the health of the U.S. economy, and its relationship to U.S. power....
Leon Hardar in The Huffington Post
The
Israeli military's violent raid on the Free Gaza aid flotilla has been
analyzed to death -- no pun intended! -- here and elsewhere. And while
I'm not trying to pile on the Israeli government, I do think that the
incident points out to issues that go beyond what was obviously a failed
military operation ba...
Japanese
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has resigned, just eight months after
leading his party to a landslide victory. The Democratic Party of Japan
meets Friday to replace him. The finance minister, Naoto Kan, is the
favorite, though nothing is certain. The party is an amalgam of...
New York Office
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Human
Rights First believes that building respect for human rights and the
rule of law will help ensure the dignity to which every individual is
entitled and will stem tyranny, extremism, intolerance, and violence.
Human
Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution,
v...
Position Type: Full-time, long-term
Location: Washington, DC
Reporting to: Senior Director for Public Policy and External Relations
(Policy and Communications Team)
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Coordinate
outreach to the Executive Branch, facilitating contacts and dialog
between senior-level government officials and issue-specialized
InterAction colleagues and helping to open new opportunities for
promotion of...
Avoiding Pyongyang
by Doug Bandow
05.24.2010
After
an investigation of nearly two months, the Republic of Korea (ROK) has
concluded that North Korea torpedoed the Cheonan, a corvette that
sank in the Yellow Sea in late March. Today, Seoul...
First, they came for the sex offenders. I am not a sex offender, but I oppose...