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Open lecture titled “Freedom of Speech Borders: Do Celebrities Have a Right to Privacy?”
When: Thursday, 5. March 2009 18.30 – 20.00 Where: Univeristy of Warsaw, Law and Administration Faculty, Room A3 (Warsaw, Lipowa Street) Host: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights More info: www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/obserwatorium/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=332:freedom-of-speech-borders-do-celebrities-have-a-right-to-privacy&catid=47:aktualnosciprog&Itemid=66
Plenipotentiary for equal status critizied
It has been almost a year since the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk appointed Elzbieta Radziszewska for a Governmental Agent for Equal Legal Status. Her work, in particular lack of involvement in discrimination issues, has been strongly critized by NGOs.
Letter to the President Medvedev regarding the killing of Stanislav Markelov
Danuta Przywara, the President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights sends a letter to Dmitri Medvedev, the president of the Russian Federation condemning the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova
Conference on controversies around freedom of the media in Poland
“Authorization in the Polish Media Law” was the title of a conference organized on 13 January 2009 at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw. Journalists, lawyers and academics discussed whether the new media law which introduces obligatory authorization of media stataments (e.g. in interviews) violates freedom of speech.
Recruitment for 20th International Summer School on Human Rights
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights invites human rights activists, university teachers and representatives of institutions from all levels of public administration dealing with human rights issues from Central, Eastern European and CIS countries to take part in the Summer School on Human Rights.
Conference “Authorization of a statement in the light of Polish media law”
When: Tuesday, 13. January 2009 15.00 – 17.30 To: Tuesday, 13. January 2009 Where: Warsaw, 11 Zgoda St. Host: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights More info: www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/news200.html
Human rights law into new territory – Marek Nowicki memorial lecture
Professor Theodor Meron, right, a leading scholar in human rights and humanitarian law, came to Warsaw on 29.11.08 to hold a lecture in memoriam of Marek Nowicki; one of the founders and the first president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film
When: Friday, 5. December 2008 To: Sunday, 14. December 2008 Where: Warsaw, Ujazdowski Castle and Muranow cinema Host: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights More info: www.watchdocs.pl
Violation of the right to respect for private and family life in the case of K.U. v FINLAND
On 2 December 2008, the European Court of Human Rights brought a landmark decision in a case concerning the Finnish authorities’ failure to protect a 12 year old boy’s right to respect for private life following an advertisement of a sexual nature being posted about him on an Internet dating site. The Court was supported in its decision by the amicus curiae brief submitted by Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.