Commissioner for Human Rights

On 4 July 2022, Deputy CHR Hanna Machinska met at the CHR Office with a delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.

On 24 June 2022 Marcin Wiącek, Polish Commissioner for Human Rights ,took part in the opening ceremony of the new judicial year of the European Court of Human Rights, which was held in Strasbourg.

The Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report “Situation of foreigners in guarded centres during the Poland-Belarus border crisis”, which  summarizes months of observations by National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture representatives, conducted…

The Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights, Hanna Machińska, gave an interview to the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung, in which she spoke about the situation of refugees from Ukraine who fled the war going to Poland.

On 18 May 2022, Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights Hanna Machińska together with Valeri Vachev and Marcin Sośniak from the Equal Treatment Department of the CHR Office, Marcin Kusy from the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and Maciej Grześkowiak, the Office’…

Polish Commissioner for Human Rights as a Constitution-based National Human Rights Institution for the protection of human rights and freedoms is deeply concerned about the situation of the Polish minority in Belarus, whose persecution by the Belarusian authorities has been…

The Commissioner for Human Rights Marcin Wiącek has forwarded to the Marshal of the Senate his opinion on the draft Act on assistance to citizens of Ukraine in connection with the armed conflict on its territory, adopted by the Sejm on 9 March 2022.

Marcin Wiącek, Mária Patakyová, Ákos Kozma and Stanislav Křeček - ombudsmen of the Visegrád 4 countries issued a joint statement on the situation in Ukraine.

On 10 and 11 March 2022, representatives of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights visited: the border crossing points in Krościenko, Korczowa, Medyka and Zosin on the Polish-Ukrainian border; the Border Guard post in Sanok, where an additional second-line border…

Temporary protection is an EU mechanism which aims to provide an immediate and collective (i.e. without the need for the examination of individual applications) protection to displaced persons who are not in a position to return to their country of origin.