The CHR, as the body that monitors the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, was pleased to receive information about the opening of public consultations on the Government's draft law on personal assistance for persons…
Poland has still not ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The impossibility of submitting individual complaints to the international control body authorised to respond to violations of the Convention - such as the Committee on the…
In 2019-2020, some local government units have passed resolutions described in public debate as ‘anti-LGBT’ resolutions. Resolutions on countering or stopping ‘LGBT ideology’ and on adopting a Local Government Charter on the Rights of Families (SKPR) fell into this group.
CHR Office published Summary Report on the Activities of the Commissioner for Human Rights in 2023.
On 25 December 2024, the provisions of the Law on the Protection of Whistleblowers governing external reporting came into force. A whistleblower may file an external report to the Commissioner for Human Rights or directly to a competent public authority.
On 10 December 2024, the decree of the Ministry of Interior and Administration (MIA) of 6 December 2024 on the introduction of a temporary ban on staying in a specific area in the border zone contiguous to the state border with the Republic of Belarus - effective for 90 days…
Citizens complain they were not given voting cards for the European Parliament elections because they were removed from the Polish electoral roll after being added to the electoral list in another EU country.
On December 16-17 of this year, an international conference titled “Let’s Build a Sustainable Future: Protecting Human Rights and the Environment” was held in Budapest. The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary hosted the event. The purpose of the meeting was to…
The meeting on 9 December 2024 at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights was also attended by Polish ECHR Judge Krzysztof Wojtyczek, Polish ECHR Judge-elect Anna Adamska-Gallant, Head of the Office of the President of the ECHR Rachael Kondak and Director of the…
At the invitation of the Secretary of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Commissioner for Human Rights Marcin Wiącek took part in a hearing on the judicial reform process in Poland, which the Monitoring Committee organised during its meeting in Tirana on…