GLOBAL MAGNITSKY HUMAN RIGHTS ACCOUNTABILITY ACT

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of State: include reported sexual and gender-based violence in conflict in annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and include such violence as a basis for sanctions or travel restrictions (see S. 1777), S3319 [11JN] (see H.R. 3212), H4432 [11JN]

Dept. of the Treasury: require report describing whether certain persons meet criteria to be sanctioned pursuant to Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act for human rights violations against Iraqi protestors (see H.R. 5276), H9179 [26NO]

Guatemala: impose sanctions to combat corruption, money laundering, and impunity, deny visas to certain officials, and ensure the U.S. can retrieve misused security equipment (see S. 716), S1734 [7MR] (see H.R. 1630), H2583 [7MR]

Hong Kong: impose sanctions against China to combat suppression of freedoms of speech, association, assembly, procession, and demonstration and freeze assets of entities undermining autonomy, liberties, and human rights (see S. 2758), S6333 [31OC]

Mexico: impose sanctions to combat corruption and human rights violations (see H.R. 5369), H9387 [9DE]

Russia: support sovereignty of Ukraine, protect human rights in Crimea, condemn Council of Europe decision to restore rights, and support sanctions relative to aggressive actions in Crimea and Kerch Strait (see H. Res. 474), H5269 [2JY]

Saudi Arabia: call for issuance of a determination on high-ranking officials’ involvement in death of Jamal Khashoggi, release political prisoners, reverse human rights violations, and alleviation of crisis in Yemen (see S. Res. 169), S2436 [11AP]

Messages

National Emergency Relative to Unusual and Extraordinary Threat to National Security, Foreign Policy, and Economy of the U.S. Posed by Serious Human Rights Abuse and Corruption Around the World: President Trump, S7154 [18DE], H12213 [19DE]

Remarks in Senate

Guatemala: impose sanctions to combat corruption, money laundering, and impunity, deny visas to certain officials, and ensure the U.S. can retrieve misused security equipment (S. 716), S1837 [13MR]

Texts of

S. Res. 169, call for issuance of a determination on high-ranking Saudi Arabian officials’ involvement in death of Jamal Khashoggi, release of political prisoners, reversal of human rights violations, and alleviation of crisis in Yemen, S2444 [11AP]