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Media Services Act – the statement of Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights made a statement to the President of Republic of Poland regarding the dratf legislation for the Public Activity within the Sphere of Media Services Act. The President of Republic of Poland declined to sign the draft in July 2009.
Viridarium: Jedwabne-Srebrenica Meeting
On the 6th of July – in anticipation of the 10th of this month – The Viridarium Group organised a commemoration evening of two anniversaries: of the murder of Jews in the village of Jedwabne, Republic of Poland (1942) and of Moslem refugees in Srebrenica, former Yugoslavia (1995).
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination begins its review on Poland
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, for its 75th session from 3 to 28 August 2009. The Committee is reviewing Poland’s 17th to 19th periodic reports from 5 to 6 August.
Squat is also a home
After 10 years, the European Court for Human Rights rendered the judgment in the case of Rachwalski and Ferenc v. Republic of Poland (application no. 47709/99). The Court held that in the examined case the Police had abused their powers. The decision is likely to force the authorities to consider changing the legal standards of search.
Blind woman’s victory in court sets precedent for non-discrimination
The friendly settlement reached between Jolanta Kramarz, right, and Carrefour Republic of Poland Limited Company is precedential in the Republic of Poland. The case was carried on by the Stategic Litigation Programme of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
Polish Public Television before the ECHR
On 16 July 2009 the European Court of Human Rights passed a judgement in the case Wojtas-Kaleta v. Republic of Poland in which Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights as a third party submitted their comments. The Court found that there was a violation of Article 10 of the Convention.
HFHR makes statement on Foreign Affairs Minister’s utterances on death penalty
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights made a statement on 17 July 2009 referring to the comment of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, right, on death penalty in Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
New Polish media law endangers public-service media, says OSCE media freedom representative
Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said that Poland’s new media law fails to secure the financial and editorial independence of public-service media and urged President Lech Kaczynski to send the law for review by the Constitutional Court.
Statement of HFHR on the Issue of So-Called III Pillar of the EU
Statement of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights on the President of Poland’s Neglect to Issue A Statement Validating the Adequacy of the European Court of Justice in the Domain of the So-Called III Pillar of the EU