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

• Human rights in Tibet
• WATCH DOCS Film Festival. Human Rights in Film

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

See also:

 

Legal Acts

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• Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

 

HFHR programs:

• Access to Justice
• Access to justice – Equality of arms in the judicial proceeding
• Clinic 42
• Human rights and settlements with the past
• Raising public awareness and increasing the NGOs’ role in the scope of spokesmanship and monitoring
• Strategic Litigation Program
• The “Innocence” Clinic

 

Helsinki Committee and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights statements

• HFHR: Letter to the Prime Minister regarding the execution of Constitutional Tribunal verdicts

  2008-02-27

• HFHR: HFHR letter to the National Judiciary Council regarding differences between verbal and written justifications of verdicts and rulings

  2008-02-18

• HFHR: Letter to the Minister of Justice regarding the appointment of 42 people for the position of court assessors

  2008-02-14

• HFHR: Letter to President of the European Commission regarding refusal of the President of Poland to appoint 9 persons for the position of judges in Polish courts

  2008-01-28

• HFHR: Letter to Council of Europe Secretary General regarding refusal of the President of Poland to appoint 9 persons for the position of judges in Polish courts

  2008-01-28

• HFHR: HFHR’s motion to the President of the Court of Appeals in Warsaw regarding the HFHR representatives’ participation as observers in appellative sessions before Warsaw criminal courts

  2007-11-23

• HFHR: HFHR open letter – position regarding the issue of legal liability of journalists for defamation

  2007-11-05

• HFHR: HFHR letter to the District Public Prosecutor for Warsaw-Praga concerning the proceedings conducted in the case of Mrs. Ludwika Wujec

  2007-08-16

• HFHR: HFHR raises an objection to the statement of Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and actions leading to the institution of criminal proceedings against the Chairman of the Association of Public Prosecutors of the Republic Poland

  2007-07-11

• HFHR: HFHR position on the recently registered proposals for amendments to the Act of 1 August 1997 on the Constitutional Tribunal (The Journal of Laws “Dziennik Ustaw” of 1997, No. 102, item 643 with further amendments)

  2007-07-06

• HFHR: The Position of NGOs regarding recent statements by state high officials against the Judiciary

  2006-09-20

• HFHR: Letter from the HFHR to the President of the Republic of Poland regarding the the act amending the act – The Law on the Advocate’s Profession and some other acts

  2005-07-28

 

Publications

• Vol. 1 - International Conference on Human Rights and Freedoms in New Constitutions in Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, 24-29 April 1992
  ed. by Rzepliński A., Warszawa 1992 (out of print)
• Dobre praktyki sędziowskie. Skrypt (Not available in English)
  M. Kmak, J. Lewandowska, B. Tokarz, P. Witan, Warszawa 2006
• Nie możemy milczeć... z ławy obrończej. Przemówienia adwokatów w procesach politycznych 1981-1986 (Not available in English)
  oprac. i do druku podał Nowicki M. A., Warszawa 1989 (out of print)
• Obserwacja procesu karnego jako instrument działania organizacji pozarządowej w sprawach indywidualnych. Podręcznik (Not available in English)
  Krzysztof Wilamowski, Warszawa 2006
• Po co ludziom konstytucja. (Not available in English)
  Łętowska E., Warszawa 1994 (out of print)
• Policemen and Their Clients. The Law in Operation. Monitoring Report. (summary)
  Cybulski S., Warszawa 2001, [nr 27] (out of print)
• Policjanci i ich klienci: Prawo w działaniu. Raport z monitoringu. Załączniki (Not available in English)
  Cybulski S., Warszawa 2001, [nr 27] (out of print)
• Prawa człowieka w społeczeństwie obywatelskim. (Not available in English)
  pod red. Rzepliński A., Warszawa 1993 (out of print)
• Prawa osób nieletnich i dorosłych w instytucjach izolacyjnych. Sprawozdanie z lustracji. (Not available in English)
  pod red. Rzepliński A., Warszawa 1995, [nr 11] (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)
• Sprawny sąd. Zbiór dobrych praktyk. (Not available in English)
  oprac. Bojarski Ł., Warszawa 2004 (out of print)
• Sprawny Sąd. Zbiór dobrych praktyk. Część 2 (Not available in English)
  oprac. Łukasz Bojarski, 2008
• Sprawozdanie z lustracji instytucji izolacyjnych dla nieletnich i dorosłych przestępców. (Not available in English)
  Warszawa 1992, [nr 1] (out of print)
• Sprawozdanie z lustracji instytucji izolacyjnych dla osób nieletnich i dorosłych. (Not available in English)
  red. Rzepliński A., Warszawa 1993, [nr 5] (out of print)
• Szkoła Praw Człowieka. Teksty wykładów. (zeszyt 1, 97 s.; zeszyt 2, 88 s; zeszyt 3, 121 s; zeszyt 4, 175 s.; zeszyt 5, 235 s.) [skrypt dla uczestników Szkoły Praw Człowieka] (Not available in English)
  Warszawa 1998 (out of print)
• Sądownictwo w Polsce Ludowej: między dyspozycyjnością a niezawisłością. (Not available in English)
  Rzepliński A., Warszawa 1989 (out of print)
• The District Courts' Condition of Work. Monitoring Report. (summary)
  Bojarski Ł., Swaton J., Warszawa 1998, [nr 23] (out of print)
• Zapobieganie torturom w instytucjach izolacyjnych Europy Centralnej i Wschodniej. Wybrane Zagadnienia. Raport z działalności Programu. Grupa Polska (Not available in English)
  red. Rzepliński A., Wilamowski K., Warszawa 2006, [nr 34]
• Zatrzymanie i tymczasowe aresztowanie a prawa człowieka. (Not available in English)
  pod red. Hołda Z., Rzepliński A., Lublin 1992 (out of print)

 

News

• The Foundation’s opinion in the case of Garlicki versus Poland

  2008-03-04

• Victory before the Voivodship Administrative Court (WSA) in the case of a refugee from Afghanistan

  2007-08-20

• Press conference of the Good Will Civil Commission

  2007-06-21

• Shameful Execution

  2007-01-04