Newsletter 1-7 November 2017
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Registation for the Polish Congress on Civil Rights, to be held on 8-9 December 2017 in Warsaw, is open.
The event will be an opportunity to discuss, e.g., the problems reported by citizens to the Commissioner for Human Rights over the last thirty years [registration to individual discussion panels].
Prof. Adam Strzembosz received the Paweł Włodkowic award granted by the CHR. The award committee was unanimous in granting the prize [more].
The Commissioner presented his position on the draft act on openness in public life
The general requirement to disclose one’s property status, which is planned to be introduced by the act on openness in public life, may apply to 108 categories of public sector employees: not only members of the country’s highest authorities, but also court employees, soldiers, policemen, bailiffs and even city guard members. The act may cover as many as 1.5 million citizens, warned the CHR. He also pointed out that with such a broad scope of the act’s application, there is a risk it may be applied selectively [more].