Projects in Poland

School of Inclusion (2022-2023)

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Promotion of human rights education at teacher conference in Poland (June 2023)

Aim: Improving teachers’ competences for inclusive practices and counteracting discrimination at school.

Activities:

1. Production of Human Right Cards (+ webinar for Polish teachers and workshop for Norwegian educators).
2. Selection/production of 9 exercises in the field of human rights and antidiscrimination education.
3. Participation and workshop at final conference 16-17th June in Warsaw.

Partner: Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej

Funding: EEA Grants

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Promotion of human rights education at teacher conference in Poland

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.