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 –...
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...
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...
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...
Human Rights in the World
The assault on free media is only one of the many fronts opened by the ruling camp in its war on Polish democracy and civil society. If my words might seem harsh, it is because we are past the point of cautious euphemisms. The attack on media freedom in Poland clears...