An international conference on the importance of the family for society and the need for its effective legal protection was held at the UN headquarters in New York. The event took place on the occasion of the International Family Day.

We, the people of different cultures, nationalities and histories participating in the Conference on the Drafting of the Convention of the Rights of the Family, meeting in Warsaw on 28 February and 1 March 2019, reaffirming the principles and values enshrined in the draft, hereby make the following declaration.

The contemporary world increasingly often undermines the identity and autonomy of family. The Convention on the Rights of the Family prepared by the Ordo Iuris Institute is to address this issue.

Ordo Iuris has long undertaken international activities aimed at protecting the family. These included the Institute's experts' participation in the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting organised in Warsaw by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

The Convention on the Rights of the Family is an opportunity to treat families fairly and with dignity and to stop harmful ideologies. Lawyers of the Ordo Iuris Institute have prepared the world's first draft international agreement guaranteeing the fundamental rights and freedoms of the most discriminated social group - the family.

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE FAMILY

Press Conference - International Convention on the Rights of the Family.

Presentation by:

Tymoteusz Zych, Karina Walinowicz (Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture)

Marek Jurek (Member of European Parliament)

CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE FAMILY (DOWNLOAD HERE)

BROCHURE ABOUT THE CONVENTION (DOWNLAD HERE)