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
Opinion of the HFHR Legal Assistance for Refugees and Migrants Program on the Green Book regarding the future common European asylum system
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has received with satisfaction the European Commission's aspirations to raise the common level of protection and equality in the scope of access to such protection throughout the European Union and to ensure greater solidarity between Member States.
We believe that a common asylum system should be established while guaranteeing aliens actual and efficient protection of their rights, which result from fundamental international treaties ensuring human rights protection. Each alien seeking protection in any EU country should be treated according to equally fair and high-quality procedural standards.
+ the entire opinion in Polish
2007-07-11
See also:
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- Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
HFHR programs:
Helsinki Committee and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights statements
- HFHR: HFHR’s letter regarding a visit of experts from the Ministry of Public Security of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Poland
2008-02-26
- HFHR: Letter to the Minister of Interior and Administration on the issue of appointing commissioners for human rights protection at the Boarder Guard
2008-02-25
- HFHR: HFHR speech on aliens whose expulsion is unfeasible for reasons independent of the organ executing the expulsion decision or of the aliens themselves
2007-12-11
- HFHR: HFHR’s position on refugees of Chechen nationality in Poland
2007-12-04
- HFHR: HFHR statement on the issue of granting permits to reside for a fixed period of time to aliens
2007-11-30
- HFHR: Entry into marriage by aliens in Poland – illegal behavior of Heads of Polish registry offices
2007-10-05
- HFHR: HFHR’s opinion on the Green Book regarding the future common European asylum system
2007-09-21
- HFHR: HFHR letter to the Minister of National Defense regarding the status of individuals cooperating with the Polish army in Iraq
2007-08-15
- HFHR: Letter to the Voivodship Chief of Police in Katowice in the case regarding the detention of an alien at the detention center in Sosnowiec
2007-06-14
- HFHR: Letter to the Minister of Regional Development regarding the situation of aliens granted international protection in Poland
2006-07-24
- HFHR: Letter by the HFHR Board regarding refugees from Chechnya to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers
2006-03-09
- HC: Letter regarding the massacre that took place in Uzbekistan
2005-05-20
- Klinika Prawa Uchodzczego i Migracyjnego - organizacja i zasady funkcjonowania. Podręcznik (Not available in English)
Magdalena Kmak, Marika Wiktoria Kosiel, Agata Mierzwa, Ewa Ostaszewska, Grzegorz Sikora, Agnieszka Skorupińska, Bartłomiej Tokarz, Aleksandra Urbańska, Jonasz Żak, Warszawa 2006 - Korea Północna za zasłoną (Not available in English)
red. nauk. Rzepliński A., Hosaniak J., Warszawa 2004 (out of print) - Prawa cudzoziemców umieszczonych w aresztach w celu wydalenia i strzeżonym ośrodku. Raport. (Not available in English)
Warszawa 2004, [nr 33] (out of print) - The Right to Humane Treatment in Isolating Institiutions. Report of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
pod. red. Rzepliński A., Kremplewski A., Warszawa 1996, [nr 15] (out of print) - Prawo i prawa uchodźcy w Polsce. (Not available in English)
Warszawa 1994, [nr 6] (out of print) - Raport z monitoringu Granicznych Placówek Kontrolnych Straży Granicznej w zakresie realizacji prawa do ubiegania się o status uchodźcy w Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej. (Not available in English)
oprac. Rubinstein H. [i in.], Warszawa 1998, [nr 21] (out of print)
News
- New project: Practices in Interviewing Immigrants: Legal Implications
2011-02-01
- European Court of Human Rights gives a judgement in the extradition case - Soldatenko v. Ukraine
2008-10-26
- Polish Press Agency about "Getting Acquainted - Diversity, Understanding, Openness" project
2007-10-01
- Victory before the Voivodship Administrative Court (WSA) in the case of a refugee from Afghanistan
2007-08-20