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.
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…
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…
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.
In May 2021, international guidelines on how officers should conduct interviews and gather information ('Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering') - known as the Mendez Principles after their author - were published.
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…