· In recent months, the media in Poland have widely reported on the tragic deaths of two women, one in Pszczyna and the other in Częstochowa. In both situations, the patients were taken to hospitals due to pregnancy complications and died during hospitalisation, as did their unborn children.
· The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a complaint by left-wing activists who had sought the removal of provisions in the Irish constitution requiring a person about to assume the office of president, or member of the Council of State, to take the oath with reference to God.
· The complainants, who claim to be non-believers, argued that such an obligation violates their freedom of conscience and religion.