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Ben Cardin: “The second recommendation I would put forward is for the full Senate in 2016 to pass the Global Magnitsky Human Rights…”

On the recordDecember 31, 2015
The second recommendation I would put forward is for the full Senate in 2016 to pass the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, S. 284, which has been introduced by Ranking Member Cardin and a number of other members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to bolster the U.S. Government's infrastructure to take action against those who commit human rights abuses or are complicit in major acts of corruption.
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Ben Cardin
Democratic · Maryland

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Cardin advocates for passing the Global Magnitsky Act to combat human rights abuses.

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