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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News
2010-04-10With our deepest sorrow and sadness we learnt about today’s tragedy. Our fillings and prayers are with the victims families and their friends.
Council, Board and employees of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
Many people killed in this tragic accident were cooperating with our organization and were devoted to human rights protection in Poland and abroad. Among them our numerous friends.
We would like to express our condolences to families of the victims of this tragic death.
HFHR report on the rights of the child
Alternative Report to the Polish government's report on the implementation of the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Right of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography" with reference to article 12(1) of the Protocol developed by the Nobody's Children Foundation and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
The letter regarding NGOs situation in Azerbaijan
2009-06-19
Discussion and Presentation of Photo Exhibition „PEOPLE WITHIN THE CONFLICT ZONE”2009-04-01
Open letter reagrding the assault in Moscow on the human rights activist Lev Ponomarev2009-03-19
Zbigniew Hołda and Marek Antoni Nowicki of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights honoured for their contributions to the defence of human rightsEvents
2010-06-23Belarus Between Local and Presidential Elections
On the 28th of June, at 10.30 am, a debate on the local elections in Belarus with perspectives on the upcoming presidential elections, and on the situation of human rights in Belarus will take place at the Helsinki Foundation in Warsaw.(Zgoda Str. 11).
2010-02-23
International Summer School on Human Rights “Human Rights an Medicine”
We are pleased to inform that the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is organizing the International Summer School on Human Rights - Human Rights and Medicine. The School will be held in Warsaw-Miedzeszyn, Poland, between 19 and 26 June 2010.
The School is addressed to leaders and activists of non-governmental organizations, young researchers and others for whom the knowledge about of human rights, in particular in the context of medical care, is necessary in their professional activities.
Russian are the working languages of our Summer School. For more information - application form and the program see Russian version of the web-side.
2008-12-16
20th International Summer School on Human Rights
ul. Zgoda 11, 00-018 Warszawa tel.: (48 22) 828 10 08, fax: (48 22) 556 44 50 e-mail: