Benjamin L. Cardin: “United States officials doing the people's business must set an example by maintaining the highest degree of integrity.”

To be true to our founding principles we need to support those people trying to defend human rights, those rights endowed to us by our Creator.

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

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