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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Helsinki Committee statement regarding the persecutor verifying proceedings in connection with the publication of the book by Jan Tomasz Gross entitled “Fear”2008-01-18 The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Cracow has undertaken verifying proceedings in connection with the publication of the book by Jan Tomasz Gross entitled "Fear". The aim of activities conducted by the prosecutor's office is to examine whether the book's author committed the crime of unjustly accusing the Polish Nation of participation, organization and responsibility for Communist or Nazi crimes, as referred to in Article 132a of the Penal Code. This deed is subject to punishment of up to three years imprisonment. The regulation penalizing "slander against the Polish Nation" was introduced in the Polish legal system under Article 37 of the so called lustration law of 18 October 2006. |
See also:
Helsinki Committee and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights statements
- HFHR: HFHR open letter – position regarding the issue of legal liability of journalists for defamation
2007-11-05
- HFHR: HFHR letter to the daily “Gazeta Wyborcza” regarding the publication of information about the ethnic origin of suspects
2007-07-26
- HFHR: Request to the Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection to consider approaching the CT with a motion to inspect the regulatory compliance of the act – Law on Cooperative Societies – with the Constitution
2007-07-13
- HC: Statement of the Polish Helsinki Committee regarding the verdict sentencing Andrzej Lepper
2006-05-09
- HC: Open letter to the Minister of Justice, the General Prosecuting Attorney
2002-02-06
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