Human Rights First

Previously known as Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and now rechristened as Human Rights First. Founded in 1977 by Jerome Shestack.


 * Winner of the 1984 Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award
 * NGO Advisory Council, Fair Labor Association

HFS Events
One of the principal events that HFS organizes is its annual awards ceremony which as a means to promote HFS's favorite human rights advocate, and as a networking opportunity so that HFS's rich funders can meet lawyers who have signed up for HFS. The list of the principals and the pet-human-rights-defender-of-the-year can be found in thislist

Staff and Principals
Former Human Rights First Principals and Staff

Funding
Human Rights First: Funding

Contact details

 * Human Rights First
 * 333 Seventh Avenue
 * 13th Floor
 * New York, NY 10001-5004
 * Tel: (212) 845 5200
 * Email: communications AT humanrightsfirst.org
 * Web: www.humanrightsfirst.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * Andrew Hudson

External Resources

 * Nabeel Abraham, et al.; International Human Rights Organizations and the Palestine Question, Middle East Report (MERIP), Vol. 18, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 1988, pp. 12 – 20. The article reviews the history and the coverage of Palestinian human rights by ten different organizations – one of them is HRF (under its previous name).  It clearly indicates that several organizations were biased.  It is a seminal article in the analysis of what is now called "the politics of human rights."