Benjamin L. Cardin: “Technical assistance would be critically important. But also making sure the resources get to those communities.”

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 support that, but whether we will ever get to that point, my concern is it is going to be years down the road, and we are going to have another Moldova and another Georgia.

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

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