Introducing the Global Human Rights Accountability Act

Cardin.senate.gov. “Visiting the United States and having access to our financial system, including U.S. dollars, are privileges that should not be extended to those who violate basic human rights and the rule of law.” --- The United States must maintain its global leadership in the fight against corruption and human rights abuses wherever they occur,” said Senator Cardin.

"Gross violators of human rights from Zimbabwe to Ukraine, and Honduras to Papua New Guinea, are put on notice that they cannot escape the consequences of their actions even when their home country fails to act.”



Read the whole text (summary and full text):
http://www.cardin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/cardin-mccain-introduce-global-human-rights-accountability-act
"U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have introduced the Global Human Rights Accountability Act, legislation that would ensure human rights abusers from anywhere in the world are denied entry into the United States and barred from using our financial institutions." 




Link above thanks to Belarusian in exile; former presidential candidate and diplomat Andrei Sannikov.




Freedom House:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/article/freedom-house-applauds-introduction-global-human-rights-accountability-act#.Ut41bbRvnIU

Photos: Kerstin Lindén