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In 2023 and 2024, a series of street demonstrations took place throughout Georgia largely in opposition to the proposed "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", which would require non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to register as foreign agents or "organizations carrying the interests of a foreign power" and disclose the sources of their income if the funds they receive from abroad ...
Rev. Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., poses for a portrait at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, in Atlanta, GA.
The 2023 attack on Tbilisi Pride (Georgian: 2023 წლის თავდასხმა თბილისის პრაიდზე) was a violent counter-demonstration and protest held by far-right, nationalist and ultranationalist groups against Tbilisi Pride, a LGBT festival in Tbilisi, Georgia.
On Friday, the Republican-controlled state senate released a congressional map that added hundreds of thousands of Black voters to Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, which is represented by ...
A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to serve as assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, standing in the offices of the Department of Justice's Civil ...
In the 1960s, Atlanta was a major organizing center of the Civil Rights Movement, with Martin Luther King Jr. and students from Atlanta's historically black colleges and universities playing major roles in the movement's leadership. On October 19, 1960, a sit-in at the lunch counters of several Atlanta department stores led to the arrest of Dr ...
There is an independent human rights Public Defender of Georgia elected by the parliament to ensure such rights are enforced. [1] However, it has been alleged by Amnesty International , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Human Rights Watch , [ 4 ] the United States Department of State [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and the Georgian opposition [ 7 ] that these rights are often breached.