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.

The Regional Court in Warsaw confirmed that Martin den Hertog, a Dutch boy with autism, will be allowed to remain with his parents in Poland. The child was separated from the married couple in the Netherlands when he started displaying symptoms of a developmental disorder. The family fled to Poland, where it applied for asylum and legal protection.

It is often the case that the exercise of women’s rights is hindered by the ideological approach to their very concept. The gender perspective often leads to misrepresentations which are primarily rooted in the perception of gender merely as a social construct, detached from its biological dimension. The 2nd Conference on Defending Women’s Rights, which featured female representatives from the spheres of science, politics, and social studies from across several countries, was devoted to precisely these issues.