Tomasz P. Malinowski

If we did that, either the police would come and arrest us again to get a bribe, or if they arrested the terrorist, someone would bribe him out and then he would come and kill us.

We expect those who organize, finance, or participate in electoral intimidation and violence to be held to account in accordance with Haitian law.

How will the U.S. continue to work with Afghanistan to bolster the legal rights of Afghan women?

I think one of the most important things that we can do for human rights in North Korea is to send a message inside the system there to the mid-level people, to the camp commanders, to the people in the public security ministries who are…

What we are talking about is simply basic human rights that everybody in the world enjoys.

It is a time, as we can all see from the headlines, when authoritarian governments beginning with big powers like Russia and China are striking out with great ferocity against freedoms of expression, association, and the press.

We have called and will continue to call for the release of Khadija Ismayilova.

We strongly support President Santos' efforts to reach a just and lasting peace with the FARC.

The United States, through multiple statements and a visit to Port au Prince by Secretary Kerry, has made clear that electoral intimidation and violence are unacceptable.

It is absolutely horrific. We are outraged by it.

Further progress on human rights is integral to our bilateral relationship and is necessary for a further deepening of bilateral ties.

The United States must ensure that actual progress is made in moving the ball forward on human rights, civic space, and free elections.

Sometimes the targeted sanctions, where that is appropriate, are a good way of empowering people.

when the paths to nonviolent change are blocked, more and more people who have grievances are going to fall under the sway of extremist groups.

Even just what we say, what you say as a Congress, is heard very clearly around the world and is taken very, very seriously.

when a democratic experiment arose in Ukraine, Russia acted against a sovereign state to stop it, leading not just to a human rights crisis, but to a threat to global order.

Most of our--and President Obama has made this clear; it is stated very plainly in our national security strategy--most of the most fundamental challenges to our national security around the world come from places where people's rights are…

we are also seeing, in some ways, a very similar increasingly assertive set of measures to restrict civil society and to challenge the legitimacy of global norms.

for the first time in many, many years, we are facing a serious challenge to universal norms of human rights from two of the world's great powers: Russia and China.

I tend to resist the notion that our interest in promoting human rights, and our interest in protecting our security, our prosperity, is--that those interests are fundamentally at odds.

Demonstrable progress on human rights is critical to the advancement of U.S.-Vietnam relations across the board, including in the security sphere.

In dealings with Iran, the United States should address the serious human rights concerns with at least the same energy as it did in negotiating a nuclear accord.

TPP offers the best hope of giving the Vietnamese people the space to pursue their rights.

The alternative would be far less cooperation in shaping the rules of trade, including rules that protect labor rights and the environment.