Georgia (Country)

Governments around the world are cracking down on protest rights; activists are documenting the playbook and building their own.

If the Biden administration wants to curb authoritarian trends, it should maintain its heightened attention to civil liberties in Georgia.

Delivering justice at the ICC for the long-neglected victims of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war requires international community support.

"The risk: An erroneous ruling by the Court would do severe damage to the Georgia and Ukraine investigations and international humanitarian law more generally. The opportunity:…

"Звернення до суду щодо агресією 'в обхідний спосіб' може 'працювати' у сенсі отримання сприятливих…

"Litigating aggression backwards may 'work' in the sense of obtaining favorable judgments, but it can also create subtle distortions over what is at stake that are only likely…

Countries that have cleaned up their act under pressure from the index rankings illustrate the need for such a gauge.

It would be self-defeating if allies where to push back on Russian challenges to the rules-based order by undermining a rare example of it.

A troubling decision by the European Court of Human Rights on its power to adjudicate alleged rights violations related to armed conflict.

If the war were limited to Azerbaijan and Armenia, the world might be forgiven for sitting this out. But Turkey, Russia, Iran and others are in deep, too.

Ombudspersons face similar risks across the region, as autocratic ruling parties seek to remove independent checks on their control.

"The attack on Georgia shows the opportunity costs of states not firmly grounding their reactions in the language of international law."