December 14, 2020
DALLAS – This December, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the country, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas celebrates its twentieth birthday and the founding vision that primed the organization to distribute close to $250,000 of direct rental....
December 10, 2020
DALLAS – On December 10, 2020--the international observance of Human Rights Day--the Trump Administration announced the largest rollback of asylum in recent history. The rule particularly targets people making asylum claims based on their gender and people fleeing political...
November 16, 2020
DALLAS – Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI), a Dallas-area non-profit organization, is announcing this year’s prestigious Angel of Freedom award winners: Pete Thompson, Associate with Clark Hill Strasburger, as the Individual Angel of Freedom Honoree; Sidley ...
October 6, 2020
DALLAS – Undocumented survivors of crime face significant barriers and re-victimization by United States’ broken immigration system, which forces them to wait nearly a decade for the U visas they are eligible for. Today, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI), the Dallas-area...
October 1, 2020
DALLAS – Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI), a Dallas-area non-profit organization, is announcing its 2020 RYHO roster, which includes 22 visual artists, 12 musicians and 9 poetry performers who are coming together for a free virtual event on October 17, 2020...
March 20, 2020
DALLAS – “We echo the call of the United Nations, leading human rights organizations and immigration lawyers from across the country: in this crisis, America cannot shut the door in the faces of our siblings from across the world with nowhere else to go,” said Pilar Ferguson...
January 29, 2020
DALLAS – “One year ago, this administration announced the implementation of the absurdly named Migrant Protection Protocols. Contrary to the requirements and norms of international law (as well as decades of practice at our borders), we now require desperate...
December 3, 2019
DALLAS – Dozens of Dallas-area restaurants and businesses are coming together to celebrate the third annual Human Rights Day DFW on December 10, the anniversary of the 1948 day on which the United Nations adopted the universal declaration of human rights...
November 14, 2019
DALLAS – “HRI’s clients flee from violence, torture, and threats of death at a moment’s notice. When they finally make it safely to US soil, they’re often in dire circumstances. Travel has wiped out savings. It’s lucky if they know anyone in the US that can provide some...
October 2, 2019
DALLAS – Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI) announces its fourth Annual Rock Your HeART Out Concert & Art Auction to take place on Saturday, October 19, 2019 from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at Life in Deep Ellum (2803 Taylor St., Dallas, TX 75226). Rock Your...
August 7, 2019
DALLAS – "Where are the bills that solve the problems that have been plaguing our system for years, address the actual causes of this crisis and ensure that people fleeing persecution can find safety in the United States?” said Bill Holston, Executive Director of the...
June 14, 2019
DALLAS – “Guatemala is not a safe country for its own citizens, let alone the refugees that are traveling through the country to reach the United States,” said Pilar Ferguson, Asylum Program Attorney at the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas. “Our own State...
May 30, 2019
DALLAS – “Asylum was created by the international community in the wake of the Holocaust—an agreement that we would never again send people fleeing persecution back to their persecutors,” said Bill Holston, Executive Director of the Human Rights Initiative...
