Human rights lawyer Adriana Lamačková reflects on decades of collaboration with partners to challenge restrictive abortion laws in Poland.
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New Threat to Medication Abortion: Anti-Abortion Extremists Installed at Department of Justice
President Trump’s recent appointees are positioned to greenlight misuse of the long-dormant Comstock Act to restrict access to abortion nationwide—even in states that protect abortion rights.
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GENEVA, 26.08.2025—One year after the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) issued landmark findings that Poland’s restrictive…
Polish Court Orders Retrial in Case of Human Rights Defender Justyna Wydrzyńska
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New UN Report: Polish Abortion Law Violates Human Rights
A comprehensive investigation reveals the devastating consequences of Poland’s restrictive abortion law on women’s health and bodily autonomy, requiring urgent legal reform.
UN Committee Finds that Polish Abortion Law is Causing Grave and Systematic Human Rights Violations
The Committee calls on Poland to legalize and decriminalize abortion in order to bring an end to severe suffering.
Komitet ONZ stwierdza, że polskie prawo aborcyjne powoduje poważne i ciągłe naruszenia praw człowieka
Komitet wzywa Polskę do legalizacji i dekryminalizacji aborcji, aby położyć kres cierpieniu kobiet
Statement by the Center for Reproductive Rights on the Polish Parliament’s Failure to Pass Landmark Abortion Decriminalization Bill
Warsaw, 12 July 2024—Poland’s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, failed today to pass draft legislation to decriminalize abortion during the first…
Poland’s Parliamentary Commission Recommends Decriminalization of Abortion
Recommendation marks a significant step toward reforming Poland’s highly restrictive abortion policies.
Poland’s Parliamentary Commission Recommends Decriminalization of Abortion
GENEVA, 25.06.2024 – The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes today’s landmark recommendation by a Polish parliamentary commission in favour of the decriminalization…
Polish Government Has a Momentous Opportunity to End Reproductive Rights Violations and Protect Women’s Health During Pregnancy
Decision-makers must take urgent steps to repeal the near total ban on abortion.
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