Human Rights Challenges
According to the 2017 Universal Periodic Review from United Nations, the human rights challenges in Poland relates to, among others:
- Incidents of violence, hate speech and discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation;
- Racial violence and discrimination;
- Lack of independence and impartiality of the judiciary;
- Lack of an appropriate system of legal aid;
- Tendency of family court judges to place children in institutional care rather than prioritize the provision of support to the family of origin or choose placement in family-based care;
- Discrimination of migrants and refugees in housing;
- Inequality in gaining access to quality education;
- Structural barriers negatively affecting the enrolment of girls and women in non-traditional educational and vocational fields and gender segregation in the educational system;
- Lack of education for asylum-seeking children placed in detention centres;
- Sex and gender-based discrimination in political and public life;
- Ill-treatment of children in police emergency youth centres, youth shelters or reform schools;
- Forced marriages of girls in situations of migration and refugee and asylum-seeking girls.
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Human Rights Academy's project
Inclusion is the key. Developing and testing educational solutions for schools to achieve wellbeing of all students (2020-2022) |
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Other activities
Digital workshop: The limits of freedom in Poland (14.12.2020) |
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Danuta Sowińska focus on challenges in Poland connected to freedom of thought , religion, and women rights (abortion) and discrimiation of minorities (LGBT). Several new laws have resulted in numerous civilian protests all over Poland.
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Workshop in human rights education in Warsawa (2017) |
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