Georgia: Government Creating Rights Crisis

By Human Rights Watch

(Brussels, January 16, 2025) – The Georgian government drove the country toward a human rights crisis in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2025. The government has adopted new repressive laws, unleashed brutal police violence against mostly peaceful protesters, and pivoted away from the European Union accession process and the human rights reforms it would have required.For the 546-page world report, in its 35th edition, Human Rights Watch reviewed human rights practices in more than 100 countries. In much of the world, Executive Director Tirana Hassan…

Read complete article

~	Beyond the Israel–Hamas ceasefire, the future looks unclear. Here are six key unanswered questions

~	No, you don’t need the ‘Barbie drug’ to tan, whatever TikTok says. Here’s why melanotan-II is so risky

~	Wildfires ignite infection risks, by weakening the body’s immune defences and spreading bugs in smoke

~	Israeli Forces Continue to Strike Civilian Infrastructure in Yemen

~	Russia: New Attacks on Rights

~	Central Asia: Worsening Human Rights Records

~	Guided by the light: Photos from Latin America and the Caribbean, with love

~	The Human Rights Commission has handed down a report on racism at Australian universities. Here’s why it fails

~	The LA fires have prompted a reckoning for the insurance industry – Australian premiums could soar as a result

~	Remembering Simon Townsend as a conscientious objector and fearless anti-Vietnam War activist