The European Parliament has adopted a Resolution to make the European Union an ‘LGBTIQ freedom zone’. The declaration was intended as a reaction to ‘LGBT free zones’ that supposedly exist in Poland. The Resolution was adopted as a result of leftist activists and Polish MEPs manipulating other members of the European Parliament. Prior to the debate, the Ordo Iuris Institute submitted to the MEPs a memorandum on, inter alia, the actual situation of persons with homosexual inclinations and gender identity disorders in Poland.

The United Nations Population Fund has published a manual on the implementation of ideological content in ‘out-of-school education’. The publication is part of a programme intended to ensure access to sexuality education to pupils who do not go to school on a regular basis, for example because of being home-schooled. Some educators are to be selected from the peer group of pupils. This may significantly limit the parents’ right to raise their children in accordance with their own beliefs.

The first reading of the citizens bill “Yes for the family, no for gender” was held in the Sejm. The goal of the bill is to ensure real protection against violence by withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention and replacing it with an international Convention on family rights. The bill was presented by representatives of the Legislative Initiative Committee. Earlier, Ordo Iuris experts presented a package of proposed solutions to combat violence and called for a round table discussion to be held on this issue.

The World Health Organization published a report on the problem of intimate violence against women globally.

People experiencing domestic violence do not always receive adequate support from the institutions which have been established for that very purpose.

The Regional Court in Zielona Góra refused to extradite the Norwegian woman who fled to Poland with her three children, having suffered violence at the hands of the children’s father. This was the second attempt by the Kingdom of Norway to bring the mother back to the country. Norwegian authorities had sent a European Arrest Warrant for her, but later withdrew it.