We are an organisation established in 1989 by the members of the Helsinki Committee in Poland.
Our mission is - the development of the human liberties and rights culture, both domestically and abroad.
Since 2007 we have Consultative Status with the United Nation's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
programs
Educational programs
- Currently conducted short-term projects
- Human Rights Workshops for Students
- International Summer School on Human Rights
- The “Innocence” Clinic
- The Human Rights Training Centre
- Viridarium
- Workshops for Young Journalists POLIS
Public education
Intervention and monitoring programs
- Child rights
- Human rights and settlements with the past
- Legal assistance to Refugees and Migrants
- Marek Nowicki Small Grants Fund
- National Focal Point RAXEN
- Public interest law actions
- Strategic Litigation Program
- The rights of minorities
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HFHR – clarification of misunderstandings in connection with the position of the State Election Commission (PKW)2007-07-25 In the presence of a series of press articles and commentaries issued today on the position of the State Election Commission (PKW) regarding the possibility of holding elections without a statutory specimen for the lustration declaration, we wish to clarify the misunderstanding resulting from certain journalistic simplifications. |
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HFHR programs:
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Helsinki Committee and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights statements
- HFHR: Letter to the President of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) requesting the removal of a legal violation
2007-10-10
- HFHR: HFHR open letter in connection with the approach of the Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection to the President of the Council of Ministers regarding the legal status of lustration following the announcement of the justification to the Constitutional Tr
2007-07-17
- HC: HC position on the new "lustration law"
2007-03-18
- HC: Statement of the Helsinki Committee in Poland regarding the lustration
2006-08-09
- HC: Statement of the Polish Helsinki Committee regarding the lustration
2006-06-02
- HC: Open letter to the President of The Institute of National Memory (IPN)
2005-02-04
- Presidental Election, Belarus, 2001. Case study: Grodno region.
Warszawa 2001 (out of print) - Parliamentary elections in Slovakia: September 1998: report on the election observation mission
Fialova Z.,Fabian G., Warszawa 1999 (out of print) - Prawa wyborcze w praktyce. (Not available in English)
Gołyński K., Warszawa 1995, [nr 9] (out of print)
News
- Report: What was the reason for queues abroad on 21 October – how to avoid mistakes in the future?
2008-01-02
- The ruling of the Czestochowa court in the case of Alfred Egeman - another success for the “Human rights and settlements with the past” Program
2007-10-17
- HFHR as an official observer in the case of Professor Jan Miodek
2007-10-03
- The Polish Press Agency (PAP): The Ombudsman has nothing against the National Electoral Commission (PKW) determining the specimen for the lustration declaration
2007-07-19