Samantha Power: “The challenge the world faces today is clear: The decades of development gains that have laid the foundation for an era…”

the pushback shows the strength of civil society and the citizen power in Georgia to chart its own course or to fulfill its own democratic aspirations.

At the same time, democracies everywhere are under attack.

We cannot abandon freedom, and we cannot leave Ukraine to be the victim of aggression at a time like this.

For the first time in decades, human life expectancy is on the decline-- while extreme poverty is on the rise.