06.03.2025
· During its first reading, the Polish Sejm referred the citizens’ bill on protecting minors from online pornography to committee work.
06.03.2025
• The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has upheld complaints from same-sex couples who were denied a certificate of no impediment to marriage abroad by a Polish registry office.
• Ordo Iuris (OI) experts participated in informal consultations which were held before the 58th sessio
Civil liberties
The following updates and adds to an earlier list of violations that was published in October 2024.
Civil liberties
• The Polish Sejm is working on a bill to criminalize so-called “hate speech”.
Civil liberties
Following the Polish parliamentary elections of October 15, 2023, a new Council of Ministers appointed by an alliance consisting of the center-left Civic Coalition, the center-liberal Poland 2050, the agrarian Polish People’s Party, and the Left was appointed on December 13, 2023, following eight years of rule by the more conservative United Right coalition led by Law and Justice (PiS).