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
The daily "Gazeta Wyborcza" on the letter of the HFHR - "Should the media provide information about the nationality of criminals"
Commentary by editor Piotr Stasiński to the letter of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the statement of the Roma Association in Poland on the issue of publishing information about the ethnic origin of criminals.
2007-07-30
See also:
HFHR programs:
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Helsinki Committee and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights statements
- HC: 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
- 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
- HFHR: Letter to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers regarding the EU Directive 2000/43/WE
2006-08-18
- HFHR: Letter to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers regarding the progress status of the work on the establishment of an office for counteracting discrimination based on race and ethnic origin
2006-07-04
- HC: Statement of the Polish Helsinki Committee regarding the verdict sentencing Andrzej Lepper
2006-05-09
- HC: Open Letter of the Helsinki Committee to the editorial staff of "Newsweek"
2004-04-06
- HC: Open letter to the Minister of Justice, the General Prosecuting Attorney
2002-02-06
- Ochrona praw osób należących do mniejszości narodowych. (Not available in English)
Warszawa 1995, [nr 12] (out of print) - Raport o sytuacji osób należących do mniejszości narodowych i etnicznych w Polsce. (Not available in English)
oprac. Janusz G., Warszawa 1994, [nr 8] (out of print)
News
- Polish Press Agency about "Getting Acquainted - Diversity, Understanding, Openness" project
2007-10-01
- New Report of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency
2007-08-30
- The daily “Gazeta Wyborcza”: "It’s better not to build walls"
2007-08-06
- The daily "Dziennik" on the issue of presenting the nationality of criminals
2007-08-02