We are an organisation established in 1989 by the members of the Helsinki Committee in Poland.
Our mission is - the development of the human liberties and rights culture, both domestically and abroad.
Since 2007 we have Consultative Status with the United Nation's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
programs
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
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
Shameful Execution
On Saturday before dawn, we regressed to an era of barbarianism. From the outset, it was obvious the conscious decision to eschew an international court meant Saddam Hussein would be quickly hung. With premeditation, he was turned over to a tribunal consisting of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites, thus sealing his fate.
Published in the Gazeta Wyborcza national daily on 2 January 2007
2007-01-04
See also:
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- Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty
HFHR programs:
- Access to Justice
- Access to justice – Equality of arms in the judicial proceeding
- Human rights and settlements with the past
- Raising public awareness and increasing the NGOs’ role in the scope of spokesmanship and monitoring
- Strategic Litigation Program
Helsinki Committee and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights statements
- HFHR: Letter to the Prime Minister regarding the execution of Constitutional Tribunal verdicts
2008-02-27
- HFHR: HFHR letter to the National Judiciary Council regarding differences between verbal and written justifications of verdicts and rulings
2008-02-18
- HFHR: Letter to the Minister of Justice regarding the appointment of 42 people for the position of court assessors
2008-02-14
- HFHR: Letter to President of the European Commission regarding refusal of the President of Poland to appoint 9 persons for the position of judges in Polish courts
2008-01-28
- HFHR: Letter to Council of Europe Secretary General regarding refusal of the President of Poland to appoint 9 persons for the position of judges in Polish courts
2008-01-28
- HFHR: HFHR’s motion to the President of the Court of Appeals in Warsaw regarding the HFHR representatives’ participation as observers in appellative sessions before Warsaw criminal courts
2007-11-23
- HFHR: HFHR open letter – position regarding the issue of legal liability of journalists for defamation
2007-11-05
- HFHR: HFHR urgent letter to European Union regarding the Polish government's "blockade" of the EU initiative of establishing a Day Against the Death Penalty
2007-09-07
- HFHR: HFHR letter to the District Public Prosecutor for Warsaw-Praga concerning the proceedings conducted in the case of Mrs. Ludwika Wujec
2007-08-16
- HFHR: HFHR raises an objection to the statement of Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and actions leading to the institution of criminal proceedings against the Chairman of the Association of Public Prosecutors of the Republic Poland
2007-07-11
- HFHR: HFHR position on the recently registered proposals for amendments to the Act of 1 August 1997 on the Constitutional Tribunal (The Journal of Laws “Dziennik Ustaw” of 1997, No. 102, item 643 with further amendments)
2007-07-06
- HFHR: Open Letter to The President of Iraq Mr Jalal Talabani
2007-01-02
- HFHR: The Position of NGOs regarding recent statements by state high officials against the Judiciary
2006-09-20
- HC: Statement of the Helsinki Committee in Poland regarding the death penalty
2006-08-16
- HFHR: Letter from the HFHR to the President of the Republic of Poland regarding the the act amending the act – The Law on the Advocate’s Profession and some other acts
2005-07-28
- HC: Declaration concerning the discussion on the restitution of the death penalty
2004-07-16
- HC: Statement of the Polish Helsinki Committee regarding the execution of Lobsang Dhondup
2003-01-30
- Vol. 1 - International Conference on Human Rights and Freedoms in New Constitutions in Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, 24-29 April 1992
ed. by Rzepliński A., Warszawa 1992 (out of print) - Dobre praktyki sędziowskie. Skrypt (Not available in English)
M. Kmak, J. Lewandowska, B. Tokarz, P. Witan, Warszawa 2006 - Kara śmierci w świetle doświadczeń współczesnych systemów prawnych. (Not available in English)
Mitera M., Zubik M., Warszawa 1998, [nr 22] (out of print) - Nie możemy milczeć... z ławy obrończej. Przemówienia adwokatów w procesach politycznych 1981-1986 (Not available in English)
oprac. i do druku podał Nowicki M. A., Warszawa 1989 (out of print) - Obserwacja procesu karnego jako instrument działania organizacji pozarządowej w sprawach indywidualnych. Podręcznik (Not available in English)
Krzysztof Wilamowski, Warszawa 2006 - Po co ludziom konstytucja. (Not available in English)
Łętowska E., Warszawa 1994 (out of print) - Prawa człowieka w społeczeństwie obywatelskim. (Not available in English)
pod red. Rzepliński A., Warszawa 1993 (out of print) - Sprawny sąd. Zbiór dobrych praktyk. (Not available in English)
oprac. Bojarski Ł., Warszawa 2004 (out of print) - Sprawny Sąd. Zbiór dobrych praktyk. Część 2 (Not available in English)
oprac. Łukasz Bojarski, 2008 - Szkoła Praw Człowieka. Teksty wykładów. (zeszyt 1, 97 s.; zeszyt 2, 88 s; zeszyt 3, 121 s; zeszyt 4, 175 s.; zeszyt 5, 235 s.) [skrypt dla uczestników Szkoły Praw Człowieka] (Not available in English)
Warszawa 1998 (out of print) - Sądownictwo w Polsce Ludowej: między dyspozycyjnością a niezawisłością. (Not available in English)
Rzepliński A., Warszawa 1989 (out of print) - The District Courts' Condition of Work. Monitoring Report. (summary)
Bojarski Ł., Swaton J., Warszawa 1998, [nr 23] (out of print)
News
- The Foundation’s opinion in the case of Garlicki versus Poland
2008-03-04
- On 10.X. we celebrated – The Day against the Death Penalty
2007-10-11
Anyone who feels that he/she should express opposition to the death penalty and support for the idea of the European Day Against the Death Penalty can do so. Here is the
LINK2007-09-14
- Polish Press Agency (PAP): The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights to the EC regarding the death penalty
2007-09-10