The 18th edition of Europride, the annual European lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride event, is underway. Saturday 17 July will see the festival culminate with tens of thousands marching in Warsaw; this is the first time the European …
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Tags: freedom of assembly poland
Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on July 14th, 2010
Polish Human Rights Ombudsman Dr Janusz Kochanowski, recently deceased in the tragic Smolensk plane accident, had recently written to the Intergroup.
Tags: hate speech poland
Posted in: News stories, Recent news on April 13th, 2010
The European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights welcomed a recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights. The court in Strasbourg ruled that Poland was wrong to deny de facto same-sex couples the rights afforded to their heterosexual counterparts. …
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Tags: anti-discrimination european court of human rights institutions poland
Posted in: News stories, Press releases, Recent news on March 5th, 2010
Update: Read the response letter from the Polish Ombudsman To: Stanisław Pięta MP Cc: Jan Tombiński, Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU; The Polish Ombudsman; Kampania Przeciw Homofobii Concerns: Remarks on art exhibition at the National Museum Brussels, 24th …
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Posted in: Intergroup documents, News stories on February 24th, 2010