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

• Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
• Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

HFHR programs:

• Asylum and Migration Law Clinic
• Clinic 42
• Legal assistance to Refugees and Migrants
• The “Innocence” Clinic

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

Publications

• 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