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Human Rights First, the Glossary

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.^[1]

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Airbnb

Airbnb, Inc. is an American company operating an online marketplace for short-and-long-term homestays and experiences in various countries and regions.

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Albert Santoli

Albert "Al" Santoli is an American writer and Founder as well as President of the Asia America Initiative.

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Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

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Ben Jealous

Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an American civil rights leader, environmentalist and executive director of the Sierra Club.

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Carlos Pascual (diplomat)

Carlos Pascual (born 1959) is a Cuban-American diplomat and the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Ukraine under President Barack Obama and Bill Clinton respectively.

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Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School (CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City.

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Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

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Diane Orentlicher

Diane Orentlicher is a professor of international law at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., and serves as Co-Faculty Director of its Center on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

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Elliot Schrage

Elliot J. Schrage is an American lawyer and business executive.

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Extremism

Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views".

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Fighting Discrimination

The Fighting Discrimination Program of Human Rights First focuses on the violence known as hate crimes or bias crimes. Human Rights First and Fighting Discrimination are human rights organizations based in the United States.

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Gimlet Media LLC is a digital media company and podcast network, focused on producing narrative podcasts and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

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Hate crime

A hate crime (also known a bias crime) is crime where a perpetrator targets a victim because of their physical appearance or perceived membership of a certain social group.

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IHS Markit

IHS Markit Ltd was an information services provider that completed a merger with S&P Global in 2022.

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Jay Carney

Jay Carney (born May 22, 1965) is an American public relations officer, political advisor, and journalist who served as the United States' White House Press Secretary from 2011 to 2014, and Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs from 2015 to 2022.

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Kerry Kennedy

Mary Kerry Kennedy (born September 8, 1959) is an American lawyer, author and human rights activist.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to Luxembourg

The United States ambassador to Luxembourg oversees the U.S. Embassy in that country.

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Michael Posner (lawyer)

Michael H. Posner (born November 19, 1950) is an American lawyer, the Founding Executive Director and later the President of Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights), the former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) of the United States, currently director for the Center of Business and Human Rights at NYU Stern School of Business, as well as Professor of Business and Society at New York University Stern School of Business, and a board member of the International Service for Human Rights.

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Mona Sutphen

Mona K. Sutphen (born November 10, 1967) was the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011.

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Nazanin Rafsanjani

Nazanin Rafsanjani is an American television and radio producer.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nonpartisan organizations in the United States

A nonpartisan organization, in American politics, is a non-profit organization organized United States Internal Revenue Code (501(c)) that qualifies certain non-profit organizations for tax-exempt status because they refrain from engaging in certain political activities prohibited for them.

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Robert A. Mandell

Robert A. "Bobby" Mandell (born 1947) is an American attorney, diplomat and businessman who also served as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 2011 to 2015.

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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (formerly the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, or RFK Center) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit human rights advocacy organization. Human Rights First and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights are human rights organizations based in the United States.

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Sarah Cleveland

Sarah Hull Cleveland (born September 4, 1965), an American judge, lawyer, law professor, and former State Department official, is a judge on the International Court of Justice and the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School (currently on leave of absence).

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_First

Also known as Bishop Garrison, Human Rights First Award, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights.

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