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10.29.2020

In the Courts Abortion Poland News

International Solidarity with Women and Peaceful Protestors in Poland

Justin Goldberg

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As organizations committed to the advancement of human rights and gender equality, we stand in solidarity with all those in Poland who for the last week have peacefully protested against the politicized attack on women’s fundamental human rights and access to health care.



Last week Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal issued a decision purporting to invalidate a legal ground for abortion. If this decision is given legal effect it will amount to the introduction of a near-total ban on abortion in Poland.



Thousands across Poland have protested peacefully against this retrogressive decision. We express our deep admiration for the courageous and tireless efforts of those defending the rights of women in Poland. Women’s fundamental human rights are universal. Attacks on these rights concern everyone in society and their impact transcends national borders.



We urge the Polish Government to respect the right of freedom of assembly and peaceful protest, and to exercise restraint and refrain from excessive use of force and violence. We are deeply concerned by reports that military action is being planned to suppress peaceful protests and demonstrations. We urge the EU and the international community to monitor the situation and to act with urgency to prevent violence against peaceful protestors and attacks on women human rights defenders. 



 



Solidarność międzynarodowych organizacji z Polskimi kobietami i pokojowych demonstrantów w Polsce



Jako organizacje zaangażowane w rozwój praw człowieka i równość płci stoimy w solidarności z wszystkimi Polakami, którzy przez ostatni tydzień protestowali spokojnie przeciwko upolitycznionym atakom na podstawowe prawa człowieka i dostęp kobiet do opieki zdrowotnej.



W ubiegłym tygodniu polski Trybunał Konstytucyjny ogłosił wyrok, w którym rzekomo unieważniono podstawę prawną aborcji. Jeśli ta decyzja nabierze mocy prawnej będzie to oznaczało wprowadzenie prawie całkowitego zakazu aborcji w Polsce.



Tysiące osób w Polsce pokojowo protestowało przeciwko tej retrogresywnej decyzji. Wyrażamy głęboki podziw dla odważnych i niestrudzonych wysiłków obrońców praw kobiet w Polsce. Podstawowe prawa kobiet są uniwersalnymi prawami czlowieka, ataki na te prawa dotyczą każdego w społeczeństwie i ich wpływ wykracza poza granice państw.



Wzywamy Rząd Polski do poszanowania prawa do wolności zgromadzeń i pokojowych protestów, do powściągliwości i powstrzymania się od nadmiernego użycia siły i przemocy. Jesteśmy głęboko zaniepokojeni doniesieniami o planowanych działaniach wojskowych w celu stłumienia pokojowych protestów i demonstracji. Wzywamy Unię Europejską i społeczność międzynarodową do monitorowania tej sytuacji i do podjęcia pilnych działań w celu zapobieżenia przemocy i ataków wobec pokojowych demonstrantów broniących podstawowych praw człowieka.



 



Solidaridad internacional con las mujeres y manifestantes pacífica/os en Polonia



Como organizaciones comprometidas con la promoción de los derechos humanos y la igualdad de género, nos solidarizamos con todas aquellas que en Polonia han protestado pacíficamente durante la última semana contra el ataque politizado a los derechos humanos fundamentales de las mujeres y al acceso a la atención sanitaria.



La semana pasada el Tribunal Constitucional de Polonia emitió una decisión que pretende invalidar un motivo legal para el aborto. Si esta decisión tiene efecto legal, equivaldrá a la introducción de una prohibición casi total del aborto en Polonia.



Miles de personas en toda Polonia han protestado pacíficamente contra esta decisión regresiva. Expresamos nuestra profunda admiración por los valientes e incansables esfuerzos de quienes defienden los derechos de la mujer en Polonia. Los derechos humanos fundamentales de la mujer son universales y los ataques contra esos derechos conciernen a todos los miembros de la sociedad y sus repercusiones trascienden las fronteras nacionales.



Instamos al Gobierno de Polonia a que respete el derecho a la libertad de reunión y a la protesta pacífica, a que ejerza la moderación y se abstenga de hacer un uso excesivo de la fuerza y la violencia. Nos preocupan profundamente los informes que indican que se están planeando acciones militares para suprimir las protestas y manifestaciones pacíficas. Instamos a la Unión Europea UE y a la comunidad internacional a que vigilen la situación y a que actúen con urgencia para evitar la violencia contra la/os manifestantes pacíficos y los ataques contra las defensoras de los derechos humanos.   



ABOFEM Chile



Abortion Rights, UK



Abortion Support Network



Aborto Libre Puerto Rico



ACCEDER, Costa Rica



Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights



Advocates for Youth, USA



Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto, El Salvador



Aids and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), South Africa



AIETI, Spain



Akahatá, Argentina



Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, USA



Alliance for Choice, Northern Ireland



Amirat OBK Association, Hungary



Article 19



Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Malaysia



Asociación Civil Mujeres en Línea, Venezuela



Asociación Familia Sana



ASPEKT, Slovakia



Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence, Turkey



Association HERA XXI, Georgia



ASTRA – Central and Eastern European Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights



Austrian Family Planning Association (OGF)



AWID



Bodrum Kadın Dayanışma Derneği, Turkey



Catholics for Choice



Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir Perú



Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir, A.C., México



CEDES – Centro de Estudio de Estado y Sociedad



Center for Curricular Development and Gender Studies (FILIA Center), Romania



Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), USA



Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), Uganda



Center for Reproductive Rights



Center Women and Modern World, Azerbaijan



Centre d’Action Laïque, Belgium



Centro de Atención en Salud (VERMELL)



Centro de Estudios de Guatemala



Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos – PROMSEX, Peru



Citizen, Democracy and Accountability, Slovakia



Clínica de Servicios Medieg



Coalition for Gender Equality, Romania



Colectiva Costa Rica Afro



Colectiva Feminista para el Desarrollo Local, El Salvador



Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir de Costa Rica



Comité de América latina y el Caribe para los Derechos de las Mujeres, CLADEM



Consorcio Latinoamericano contra el aborto inseguro (CLACAI)



Cornell Gender Justice Clinic, USA



Demokratik alevi Dernekleri Kadın Meclisi _ Turkey



Deniz Yıldızı Women Solidarity Association, Turkey



Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW), Germany



Deutscher Juristinnenbund e.V. (djb), Germany



DİSK Birleşik Metal-İş (United Metal Workers’ Union) Women’s Committee, Turkey



Doctors for Choice, Malta



ECOS, Argentina



Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), Egypt



ELA – Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género



Entre Nosotras Venezuela



erktolia, Turkey



ESITIZ – Equality Watch Women’s Group, Turkey



Estonian Sexual Health Association, Estonia



European Consortium for Emergency Contraception



European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association



European Roma Rights Centre



Euroregional Center for Public Initiatives (ECPI), Romania



Family Planning and Sexual Health Association, Lithuania



Federación Planificación Familiar Estatal, Spain



FeminAmfi, Turkey



Feminist Majority Foundation, USA



Fertility Europe, Belgium



Fondazione Pangea Onlus and Reama Network, Italy



Freedom of Choice, Slovakia



Fundación Desafío, Ecuador



Fundación ESAR, Colombia



Fundación Miles, Chile



Fundación Mujeres x Mujeres (Argentina)



Fundación Oriéntame, Colombia



FUSA AC de Argentina



Global Justice Center



Great Lakes Initiative for Human Rights and Development (GLIHD), Rwanda



Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights, USA



Health Development Initiative (HDI), Rwanda



Health Education and Research Association (HERA), Republic of North Macedonia



Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, City of New York School of Law, USA



Human Rights in Childbirth



Human Rights Watch



Humanists UK



Ibis Reproductive Health, South Africa & USA



If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, USA



Iniciativas de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (ICID), Spain



Inppares, asociación miembro de IPPF en Perú



International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion



International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)



International Commission of Jurists



International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)



International Women’s Health Coalition



Ipas



Ipas, Bolivia



IPPFWHR



Irish Family Planning Association



K.K. Attorneys, Blantyre, Malawi



Kadın Zamanı Derneği, Turkey



KAPADOKYA Kadın Dayanışma Derneği, Turkey



Karadeniz Kadın Dayanışma Derneği, Turkey



KIKAP TRABZON Foundation, Turkey



Kırkyama Women Solidarity, Turkey



Kırmızı Biber Derneği, Turkey



KK Attorneys, Malawi



Koza Women Association/Bursa, Turkey



Kuşadası Kent Konseyi Kadın Meclisi, Turkey



Las Comadres, Red de acompañamiento en aborto, Ecuador



Latvian Association for Family Planning & Sexual Health



Lawyers for Choice, UK



Libera Associazione Italiana Ginecologi per l ‘Applicazione legge 194 /78 (LAIGA), Italy



Lithuanian Women’s Lobby



Lobby Europeo de Mujeres en España (LEM España), Spain



London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign



Marie Stopes International



Marijampole Women’s Center, Lithuania



Medical Students for Choice, USA



Men Against Violence, Malta



Mesa Acción por el Aborto en Chile



Milhas pela Vida das Mulheres, Brazil



Mouveent Luxembourgeois pour le Planning Familial et l’Education Sexuelle a.s.b.l, Belgium



Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial, France



Moviment Graffitti, Malta



Mujer Y Salud en Uruguay (MYSU)



NARAL Pro-Choice America, USA



National Women’s Council of Ireland



National Women’s Law Center, USA



NAYA Kenya



Nebudeme ticho, Slovakia



Netherlands Helsinki Committee



Nyale Institute for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (Nyale Institute), Malawi



PLAFAM Venezuela



Planned Parenthood Global



Platform for Reproductive Justice



Population Matters, UK



pro familia Bundesverband, Germany



Profamilia, Colombia



Profamilias Puerto Rico



REDAAS – Red de Acceso al Aborto Seguro Argentina



Rede Médica pelo Direito de Decidir – Global Doctors for Choice/Brasil



Reproductive Health Network, Kenya



Reproductive Health Training Center, Republic of Moldova



Roda – Parents in Action, Croatia



Romanian Women’s Lobby



Rutgers, Netherlands



Safe Abortion Advocacy Initiative: Global South Engagement (SAIGE), Malaysia



Şanlıurfa Yaşamevi Kadın Dayanışma Dernegi, Turkey



Sarajevo Open Centre, Bosnia and Herzegovina



Sendas, Ecuador



Sensoa, the Flemish centre of expertise on Sexual Health, Belgium



Sex og Politikk, Norway



SEX vs The STORK Association, Romania



Sexual Health Switzerland



Sexual Rights Initiative



She Decides, Kenya



Sister Supporter, UK



Social Innovation Fund, Lithuania



Society for Education in Contraception and Sexuality, Romania



Society for Feminist Analyses AnA, Romania



Sombrilla Centroamericana. Organizaciones por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos y por la Despenalización del Aborto en Centroamérica



SRHR Africa Trust (SAT)



Stowarzyszenie na Rzecz Leczenia Niepłodności i Wspierania Adopcji Nasz Bocian, Poland



Surkuna – Ecuador



Swedish Association for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (RFSU), Sweden



Taller Salud, Puerto Rico



The National Abortion Federation, USA



The Population Institute, USA



UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development & Reproductive Health



Union Women Center, Georgia



Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights



We Testify, USA



White Ribbon Alliance, USA



Woman Health and Family Planning, Ukraine



Women and Children First, UK



Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust (WLSA), Malawi



Women Enabled International



Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways, Turkey



Women Lawyers On Guard Action Network, Inc, USA



Women on Web, Canada



Women’s Coalition, Turkey



Women’s Federation of Associations, Turkey



Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)



Women’s Link Worldwide, Spain



Women’s NGOs Cooperation Network of Latvia



Women’s Resource Center NGO, Armenia



Women’s Rights Foundation, Malta



Women’s Room – Center for Sexual Rights, Croatia



Women’s Solidarity Association of İzmir, Turkey



Women’s Solidarity Foundation, Turkey



World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)



YouAct – European Youth Network on Sexual and Reproductive Rights



Youth for Youth, Romania


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