Benjamin L. Cardin: “The Department of State and the work of our diplomats do every day has never been more important.”

if Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.

Freedom House is pleased to support the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act, led by Chairman Cardin.