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POLAND: Religion and ethics classes in schools are being reduced

Freedom of Religion and Belief

POLAND: Religion and ethics classes in schools are being reduced The European Times (01.04.2025) – The Holy Synod of the Polish Orthodox Church has joined the Roman Catholic Church in Poland in expressing concern over the new regulation of the Ministry of...

POLAND: Polish parliament rejects a bill to legalise abortion

Women's Rights & Gender Equality

Polish parliament rejects abortion bill A bill to legalise abortion has been rejected by right-wing MPs, making Poland one of the few European countries with very strict abortion laws. By Bartosz Sieniawski Euractiv (24.06.2022) –  https://bit.ly/3NoatRw –...

POLAND: We defend and will defend “Gazeta Wyborcza”, the editorial staff says

Human Rights in the World, Uncategorized

We defend and will defend “Gazeta Wyborcza” The management of “Gazeta Wyborcza” has lost confidence in Agora’s Management Board and files a vote of no confidence in it.   By Adam Michnik and Jarosław Kurski   Gazeta Wyborcza...

POLAND: 100 days since Poland banned abortion; Polish women fighting back

Women's Rights & Gender Equality

By Sandrine Amiel   Euronews (12.05.2021) – https://bit.ly/2Rzz5zW – Maja, a 27-year-old from a small town in the northeastern Polish region of Podlasie, was neither financially nor emotionally ready for another child when she found out she was...

POLAND’s top court ousts ombudsman in rule of law standoff

Human Rights in the World

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that an article of the Commissioner for Human Rights Act is unconstitutional, meaning Ombudsman Adam Bodnar – who repeatedly pointed out the government backsliding on the rule of law, freedom of the press, and democratic...
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