09.05.2025
• Representatives of the Ordo Iuris Institute will participate in the Pan-African Conference on Family Values, which will begin on May 12 in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Ordo Iuris is a partner of the event.
During Holy Week, when we remembered the martyrdom of Jesus, many Poles heard about the innocent death of 9-month-old Felek (such an altered name was given to him by Gazeta Wyborcza journalists). Potassium chloride – a substance used to carry out death sentences – was injected into the heart of the boy who was due to be born any day.
07.05.2025
• The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a complaint by a same-sex couple whose Polish registry office refused to register a marriage contracted in the United Kingdom. This is the fourth judgment in which the ECHR indicates that Poland has an obligation to ensure that same-sex couples can formalize their cohabitation.
Civil liberties
Over the past 70 years, the European Union has evolved from a simple economic cooperation project into a powerful supranational entity with its own currency, court, and ability to impose financial sanctions on Member States. What began as a vision of free trade and peaceful coexistence has transformed into an institution influencing nearly all aspects of governance in Europe, centralizing power at the expense of national sovereignty.
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”.
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