Targeted Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Sanctions (Global Magnitsky)
Targeted Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Sanctions (Global Magnitsky)
Targeted sanctions like those authorized under the Global Magnitsky Act and similar programs can hold accountable the world’s worst human rights abusers and corrupt actors.
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July 09, 2020
WASHINGTON — Human Rights First today welcomed announcements by the U.S. government that it had implemented targeted sanctions against four Chinese government officials and one Chinese government...
March 29, 2019
Washington, D.C.—On March 28, a group of 40 human rights, democracy, and anti-corruption organizations and experts led by Human Rights First and Freedom House...
March 27, 2019
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will testify twice today in the House of Representatives to justify President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget plan and answer questions from lawmakers. In the morning...
March 14, 2019
Washington, D.C.—A group of 11 human rights organizations led by Human Rights First today called on the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to undertake...
March 13, 2019
Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First welcomed release of the State Department’s 2018 Human Rights Reports today, while noting that the internationally recognized rights monitored within the reports...
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Testimony | March 06, 2019
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Transparency International EU
Frozen – How can the EU Fight Global Corruption
Panel: Toward the Adoption of an EU-wide Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime
March 06, 2019
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Factsheet | February 15, 2019
On October 2, 2018, a team of Saudi Arabian hit men are alleged to have murdered Washington Post columnist and Virginia resident Jamal Khashoggi after luring him into Saudi Arabia’s embassy in...
Letter | December 05, 2018
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December 05, 2018
OPEN LETTER FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT OF A TARGETED, GLOBAL EU HUMAN RIGHTS SANCTIONS REGIME
Dear Ministers of Foreign...
Report | June 09, 2018
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Introduction Leaders of Hungarian civil society are appealing to the U.S. government to counter Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s accelerated assault on peaceful dissent, anti-...
Testimony | December 13, 2017
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Robert G. Berschinski
Remarks as Prepared
U.S. Helsinki Commission Briefing
Examining the Anti-‐Corruption Provisions of the Global Magnitsky Act
December 13, 2017
U.S...
