Benjamin L. Cardin: “I agree that normally it is Security Council, but the General Assembly has the ultimate power in the United Nations.”

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

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this 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.