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
2009-09-03HFHR 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 rights2009-03-15
PACE Human Rights Prize to be awarded to British Irish Rights Watch for outstandingâ action to defend human rightsEvents
2010-02-23International 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
2008-01-16
Seminar "Why should Poland ratify the European Bioethics Convention?"
The seminar will take place on 24 January 2008 (Thursday) at 10.15 - 12.15 at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights conference hall (Warsaw, 11 Zgoda Street, 6th floor).
The seminar's special guests will be Dr. Maja Grzymkowska and Prof. Krzysztof Marczewski, experts on bioethics issues.
We will not ensure translation into English.
2007-12-20
19th International Summer School on Human Rights2007-09-17
Recruitment for the 7th edition of the Human Rights Workshops2007-09-16
Conference on migration, minorities and discriminationul. Zgoda 11, 00-018 Warszawa tel.: (48 22) 828 10 08, fax: (48 22) 556 44 50 e-mail: