Commissioner for Human Rights

On 31 January 2025, a meeting was held at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights between Deputy Commissioner Adam Krzywon and members of the Migration Consortium. The main topic of discussion was the fundamental rights monitoring mechanism.

On 30 January 2025, Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights Wojciech Brzozowski met with the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) Sirpa Rautio and the Head of the FRA's Justice, Digital and Migration Unit Joanna Goodey.

Deputy CHR Wojciech Brzozowski hosted on 28 January 2025 at the Office of the CHR a delegation of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), visiting Poland in connection with the presidential elections to be held on 18 May 2025. The delegation…

Draft Implementation Plan for the document adopted by the Council of Ministers entitled ‘Take back control. Ensure Security. Poland's Comprehensive and Responsible Migration Strategy for 2025-2030‘ provides for the Commissioner for Human Rights to play a central role in the…

For years, the Commissioner for Human Rights has been actively monitoring the situation and taking measures to protect the rights of individuals belonging to national and ethnic minorities, including the Roma community. The CHR has been increasingly concerned about the social…

For more than four months, the Constitutional Tribunal's judgment of 4 June 2024, which is favourable to so-called early retirees, has not been published in the Journal of Laws.

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.