report https://en.ordoiuris.pl/report pl Summary of the report "Why Do We Need Sovereignty?” https://en.ordoiuris.pl/civil-liberties/summary-report-why-do-we-need-sovereignty <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Summary of the report &quot;Why Do We Need Sovereignty?” <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>wt., 03/12/2024 - 10:44</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p class="text-align-justify" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Through the proposed amendments to the European Union treaties, the unelected European Commission aims to "build a superstate that will be highly centralized in the economic, military, political, and social areas". If this plan succeeds, it will create a strong center of power centered on Germany. The latter will be able to impose important policies against the will of a majority of the Member States, disregarding their security and economic interests as well as their social, legal, national, and cultural identity. </span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It will also enable <b><i>the</i></b> <b><i>introduction of further changes to the treaties through majority voting instead of the current unanimity rule.</i> </b>It will thus make it possible to further restrict the Member States’ sovereignty against their will, realizing the vision of an Italian communist, Altiero Spinelli, as outlined in the 1940s in his <i>Ventotene Manifesto </i>(which is openly invoked in the preamble of the draft amendments to the EU treaties). </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><a data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="65f8a152-cc9f-45e9-b2a5-9bfee556973f" href="/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why_do_we_need_sovereignty_report.pdf"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">READ THE REPORT - LINK</span></span></span></strong></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><a data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="23759426-09a6-48d1-8172-c119da699cba" href="/sites/default/files/inline-files/Summary.pdf"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">READ THE SUMMARY - LINK</span></span></span></strong></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <div style="border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:1.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"> <p style="border:none; margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; padding:0cm; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Background</b></span></span></span></p> </div> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On December 18, 2023, the European Parliament adopted 267 substantial amendments to the EU treaties providing for the takeover by Brussels of competences in ten crucial policy areas: (1) climate, (2) health, (3) cross-border infrastructure, (4) border protection (including immigration), (5) foreign policy, (6) security and defense policy, (7) industrial and economic policy, (8) education, (9) monetary policy, and (10) family law. See the resolution below:</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0427_EN.html#title1" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0427_EN.html#title1</a></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In December, all these amendments were accepted by the Council of the European Union. </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The adoption process is expected to take around two years. It will have to go through the approval of the European Council (the heads of states and governments), the Convention (representatives of the national parliaments, the European Commission, and the heads of states and governments), and then be ratified by all EU Member States.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All available means of pressure will be brought to bear in order to influence hesitant governments.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <div style="border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:1.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"> <p style="border:none; margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; padding:0cm; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Some of the most important provisions are summarized below. </span></span></span></p> </div> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>External Security, Defense, &amp; Military Spending</u></b> (Chapter 6 of the Ordo Iuris report) will become a shared competency (Amendment 75) under the “Defense Union comprising military units and a permanent rapid deployment capability, under the Union’s operational command” (A 52). This means the transformation of the present national armed forces into a Union armed force where a European Defense Agency would be given the right to “procure armaments on behalf of the Union and its Member States.” Even those countries with the highest rate of defense spending – Poland spends 3.1% of its GDP on its military, for example – will have no control over their choice of suppliers.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Member States will also lose control over their own armed forces given that the “decisions relating to the common security and defense policy shall be adopted by the Council acting by a qualified majority” (A 53). Additionally, military missions will be launched based on a decision taken by a qualified majority (A 54) instead of via the current principle of unanimity.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The establishment of the Defense Union should be read as a challenge to NATO structures and, in the longer term, as an attempt by Europe to abandon military cooperation with the United States altogether. It would represent an intermediate stage in the realization of the German Eurasian concept of an EU involving the Russian Federation’s participation, and open to a balanced policy between the US and China.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Foreign affairs</u></b><b> (</b>Ch 5).<b> </b> The EU plans to introduce fundamental changes to the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) by rendering “foreign affairs” an area of shared power (A 73). In the case of the “harmonization” of EU foreign policy, Member States would be bound by instructions from Brussels. Their diplomatic missions can be replaced by the EU External Action Service. The High Representative for Foreign Policy will become a European foreign affairs minister under the name of Union Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Border protection</u></b><b> </b>(Ch 4). “External border policy” will be included in the category of shared powers (A 98), which will enable the EU to regulate the Member States’ border protection policies, personnel, and procedures in order to carry out immigration services. <b>This may affect those border walls that have been built in Hungary and Poland,</b> as well as miscellaneous other security measures plus the ability to regulate the flow of immigrants. </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Industry and Economy</u></b><b> </b>(Ch 7). The area of “industry” will also become a competency shared between the EU and the Member States (A 75). This will accelerate the processes of EU industrial integration while limiting the Member States’ influence on industrial policy and economic development. The proposed treaty changes likewise affect such strategic areas as the mining, energy, and arms industries. They will additionally allow the European Commission to intervene further in the Member States’ economies. </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Monetary Policy</u></b><b> </b>(Ch 9).  The draft inscribes into the treaty the principle that “the currency of the Union is the euro.” This change will force the implementation of the euro as the sole currency in all Member States. Until now, Germany and the Netherlands have been the main beneficiaries of the common currency, with all the other Eurozone countries, notably France and Italy, losing out financially and economically due to their participation in it.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Climate Policy</u></b><b> </b>(Ch 1). “Climate protection” will become required in all policies (A 83), and the EU will have exclusive rights to sign international treaties pertaining to “climate change” (A 69). It will gain sole competence over environmental issues, with new powers to prosecute “environmental crimes.” Considering the radical green policies pursued by the EU, it is to be expected that green technologies will be forced through without consideration for their costs and effectiveness, thus posing a threat to the bloc’s energy security. </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Cross-border infrastructure</u></b> (Ch 3). The cross-border infrastructure will become a shared competency in the field of transportation (A 71) and include all modes of transportation: road, rail, sea, air, and inland waterways. This is likely to lead to the cancellation of projects such as the Via Carpatia highway that is to connect the countries of the Three Seas region, as well as the Central Communications Port (CPK) airport project in Poland, and will as well carry significant logistical, economic, and military implications concerning liquid gas terminals that are necessary to ensure energy independence from Nord Stream, etc. </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Education and Upbringing</u></b><b> </b>(Ch 8). Education will also become a shared competency. This implies a far-reaching restriction on the Member States’ autonomy in determining their educational systems and programs, enabling the introduction of uniform and mandatory educational standards, including permissive sex education for all. This is to be understood as a step towards the abolition of sovereign nation-states and the creation of a common European state, possessing a common European identity that will replace national identities. </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Health</u></b><b> </b>(Ch 2). Health policies will furthermore become a shared competency of the EU and the Member States. This may enable the EU to adopt a single policy for introducing pandemic restrictions on civil liberties (e.g., lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations, etc.) as well as access to abortion. The proposed amendments will introduce the concept of “sexual and reproductive health and rights,” which have hitherto been unrecognized according to treaty standards. This mainly concerns abortion and contraception, but also drastic surgical and hormonal interventions as part of so-called “transitions,” alongside a form of sexual education promoting promiscuity. </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u>Family Law</u></b><b> </b>(Ch 10). Amendments 103 and 104 will remove the requirement for unanimity in the EU Council on questions of family law. A qualified majority will therefore be able to decide on the adoption of laws that contradict the cultural, constitutional, and moral identities of a significant number of the Member States.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><a data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="ab49a7ac-b6ff-4a14-8071-8d493943bbc6" href="/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why_do_we_need_sovereignty_report_0.pdf"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">READ THE REPORT - LINK</span></span></span></strong></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * 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hreflang="pl">treaties</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/sovereignity" hreflang="pl">sovereignity</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:44:12 +0000 filip.bator 1496 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl Christians attacked across OSCE region https://en.ordoiuris.pl/civil-liberties/christians-attacked-across-osce-region <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Christians attacked across OSCE region <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>śr., 11/29/2023 - 11:17</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has published a report on hate crimes against Christians in 46 countries in 2022.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· The publication includes reports of cases recorded by the Ordo Iuris Institute.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· Situations described included assaulting and threatening to kill Catholic priests, acts of vandalism, disrupting a mass or attack with a dangerous instrument.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· The OSCE report takes into account 82 hate crimes against Christians in Poland reported by social organisations.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify">Hate crimes are influenced by a number of factors, including the minority or majority status of a territory, the level of recognition of particular religious groups in a country or the attitude of political groups and the media towards Christians. The OSCE report on hate crimes includes reports of physical assaults and murders. The publication also indicates that graffiti and vandalism against places of worship, desecration of cemeteries and arson of churches are among the most common types of crimes motivated by prejudice against Christians.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">The report also takes into account hate crimes committed in Poland, including, among others, physical attacks on clergy reported by the Ordo Iuris Institute. One incident involved a man who attacked a vicarage in Dolice at night. The perpetrator destroyed the gates, entrance doors, thermal insulation and facades of the vicarage building. Death threats were directed towards the priests. An equally dangerous situation occurred in a church in Zabrze, when the celebration of evening Mass was disrupted. During the Eucharist in progress there, two men entered the church. One of them set off a firecracker in front of the altar in the presence of the priest and praying worshippers. The report also describes an attack by a man armed with a knife on the bishop's driver during an official canonical visit to Myślenice. The attacker dealt the driver several blows with a sharp instrument and then fled the scene. The injured man was transported to hospital in serious condition.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">The report shows that in 2022, there were 8106 hate crime incidents targeting individuals and institutions in 46 countries in Europe. This compares to 6391 crimes in 2021, an increase of almost 27%. In 2022, 852 hate crimes were committed against Christians. This compares to 775 acts in 2021, a noticeable increase of almost 10%.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">In the case of Poland, the OSCE reports that official police statistics show that 1180 hate crimes were reported in 2022. This compares to 991 reported crimes in 2021, an increase of 18%. In addition to police statistics, the report takes into account crimes reported by NGOs. Moreover, the recent underreporting of hate crimes can also be observed due to a worrying trend indicating the indifference of Polish society to statements and behaviour that offend Christians, including from politicians or media representatives. The authors of the report also found that in Poland, despite the July 2022 amendment of the Penal Code, as well as training courses organised by the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution for representatives of the judiciary, it is still difficult for individuals to distinguish between hate crimes and other crimes. Therefore, according to the OSCE, there is a need for further training of police officers and prosecutors in this area.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">The Ordo Iuris Institute has been conducting a programme of monitoring hate crime cases in Poland since 2015. In May 2023, the Institute submitted a report to the OSCE listing 77 cases of religiously motivated aggression against Christians in Poland. In addition, the Centre for Religious Freedom was established in 2018 with the aim of collecting information on cases of religious freedom violations as well as legal intervention.</p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Kategoria } <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * image-formatter--node--aktualnosc--field-zdjecie.html.twig x image-formatter.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/artykul_full/public/2023-11/AdobeStock_433069019%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=7bkAIWCw" width="250" height="125" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div>Adobe Stock</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-tagi--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--field-tagi.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-tagi.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> <hr> <ul class="tags_list"> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/christians" hreflang="pl">christians</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/osce" hreflang="pl">osce</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/church" hreflang="pl">church</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/persecutions" hreflang="pl">persecutions</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:17:58 +0000 filip.bator 1473 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl UN independent expert's report: recognition of gender plurality and "gender education" https://en.ordoiuris.pl/family-and-marriage/un-independent-experts-report-recognition-gender-plurality-and-gender-education <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> UN independent expert&#039;s report: recognition of gender plurality and &quot;gender education&quot; <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>wt., 07/11/2023 - 15:38</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· UN independent expert Viktor Mardigal-Borloz has published a report on the relationship between freedom of religion and conscience and protection from violence and discrimination based on "sexual orientation" and "gender identity."</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· The report was presented at the 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· The publication is the result of work carried out by the expert, as well as opinions submitted by stakeholders.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· In the report's conclusions, the expert recommends providing "comprehensive sex and gender education," repealing laws criminalizing blasphemy, and recognizing the existence of a differentiated division of the sexes, not only into male and female.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>· The Ordo Iuris Institute already submitted an opinion to the report in January, pointing out that the prohibition of discrimination, equal treatment and protection from violence are subjects of constitutional protection in Poland, which covers all citizens, regardless of their sexual preferences.  </strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify">The UN Independent Expert on Protection from Violence and Discrimination on the Basis of "Sexual Orientation" and "Gender Identity" announced a few months ago that he was collecting information from states and civil society on how the protection of freedom of religion or belief affects the freedom of "sexual orientation" and "gender identity." The report aimed to conduct an objective study of the relationship between religious freedom issues and the prohibition of discrimination.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">In the course of the work, the Ordo Iuris Institute also submitted its opinion. In it, the Institute's experts pointed out that the prohibition of discrimination, equal treatment and protection against violence, are subject to constitutional protection in the Republic of Poland, which covers all citizens. The Polish legal system fully protects everyone, regardless of their sexual preferences. Diversity, equality and, above all, the right to privacy and the belief in the innate, inalienable dignity of every human being, have been embedded in Polish culture and tradition for centuries. In addition, the Polish legal order does not take into account the assumptions of gender theory, remaining with the natural distinction of sex on the basis of biological criteria.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">The basis of the report was based on the thesis that historically, under the guise of religiosity, institutional violence was permitted, promoted and enabled on the basis of sexual preference or "gender identity." The author of the study himself, Viktor Mardigal-Borloz, stated that "in some cases, religious narratives have been deliberately used to justify violence and discrimination - often in contradiction to the doctrine of these faiths."</p> <p class="text-align-justify">In the report's conclusions, the expert calls, among other things, for member states to ensure "bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights for LGBT and gender-diverse people," as well as "comprehensive sex and gender education" in accordance with international standards, and to repeal laws criminalizing crimes such as blasphemy. In addition, according to the expert, religious leaders should recognize that "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" are diverse around the world, and that gender manifests itself differently in many cultural and social structures and practices through the fact that many cultures recognize more genders than the male-female binary.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">"It would be unethical to say that one social group is entitled to more privileges than the others. We are all human beings and we all have equal rights, and therefore inherently deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, regardless of our belief system or sexual preference. As history teaches us, any such divisions and singling out of one group over another will lead to serious, senseless conflicts," commented Iga Malinowska of the Ordo Iuris International Law Center.</p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Kategoria } <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x 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height="125" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div>Adobe Stock</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-tagi--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--field-tagi.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-tagi.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> <hr> <ul class="tags_list"> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/united-nations" hreflang="pl">United nations</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/independent-expert" hreflang="pl">independent expert</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/gender" hreflang="pl">gender</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/sex" hreflang="pl">sex</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/sexual-education" hreflang="pl">sexual education</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:38:15 +0000 filip.bator 1440 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl Report of the International Commission of Jurists: decriminalization of abortion, normalization of prostitution and drug abuse https://en.ordoiuris.pl/life-protection/report-international-commission-jurists-decriminalization-abortion-normalization <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Report of the International Commission of Jurists: decriminalization of abortion, normalization of prostitution and drug abuse <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>pt., 06/23/2023 - 13:08</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">The International Commission of Jurists recently published a report containing principles which, in its opinion, states should follow in the field of legislation concerning, among others, abortion, drug addiction, prostitution or sexual activities involving minors. The Commission recommends the complete decriminalization of abortion as well as behaviors that may harm the health and life of unborn children. The authors of the report also emphasize that criminal law should not prohibit the organization of prostitution and profit from this practice. It encourages to take into account the ability of minors to consent to engage in sexual activities.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">The document is titled "The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty”. These principles were developed over a five-year consultation process, following an initial meeting of legal experts convened in 2018 by the IPC - together with the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">According to the authors of the publication, international human law requires to take into account, inter alia, the evolving ability of adolescents to consent in certain contexts, even when some behaviors are prohibited by law. The more than 30-page-long report contains 21 principles that should be taken into account when it comes to enforcing criminal law in individual countries around the world. Among them are e.g. rules on "reproductive and sexual rights", abortion, prostitution, HIV, "conscious sexual conduct" and "sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression".</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">The Commission points out, inter alia, that criminal law ought not to infringe on the right to make decisions regarding one's own body, when it comes to matters such as sexuality and reproduction, as pregnancy, contraception, including emergency, comprehensive abortion care, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, affirmation of sexual orientation or gender identity services and goods, including information. The authors of the publication indicate that abortion should be excluded from the scope of criminal law. They claim it should also be legal to perform, assist or provide an abortion, medication or abortion-related services.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">Lawyers who signed the text also stress that no criminal charges should be brought against behavior "allegedly harmful to pregnancy, such as alcohol or drug use." The Commission also points out that "Criminal law enforcement should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under the age of 18 to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard on matters affecting them."</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">The report also addresses the subject of prostitution. According to the authors, no criminal law should prohibit the facilitation, organization, advertising, provision of information or the renting of premises for the purpose of exchanging sexual services between consenting adults for money, goods or services.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">The Commission points out that criminal law cannot prohibit "the use of drugs or the possession, purchase or cultivation of drugs for personal use, including by persons under the age of 18 or who are pregnant". Moreover, according to the authors of the report, "no one can be held criminally responsible for performing life-sustaining activities in public places, such as sleeping, eating, preparing food, washing clothes, sitting or performing hygiene activities, including washing, urination and defecation, or similar acts in public places where no suitable alternatives are available'.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">As indicated by the Commission, these rules are intended to provide a clear and transparent legal framework and practical guidance on the application of criminal law to conduct related to:</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">· sexual and reproductive health and rights, including termination of pregnancy;</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">consensual sexual activities, including in contexts such as extramarital sex, same-sex sexual relations, teenage sexual activity and sex work;</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">· gender identity and gender expression;</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">· not disclosing, exposing or transmitting HIV;</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">· drug use and possession for personal use;</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">· homelessness and poverty.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">The International Commission of Lawyers is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1952, currently operating on five continents. Its main task is to ensure the gradual development and effective implementation of human rights and international humanitarian law, to secure the implementation of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights, as well as to care for the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary and legal professions in the world.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:115%">“The International Commission of Jurists is a permanent group of 60 distinguished lawyers - including senior judges and academics, representing various parts of the world and legal systems. The documents they prepare have been used in the past by international organizations, and what is worrying is the fact that the authors indicate that the genesis of the project was a meeting in 2018 with the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS - UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - OHCHR" – stresses Weronika Przebierała, the director of Ordo Iuris Center for International Law.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Kategoria } <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * image-formatter--node--aktualnosc--field-zdjecie.html.twig x image-formatter.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/artykul_full/public/2023-06/AdobeStock_74202774%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=CIOg5_jX" width="250" height="125" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div>Adobe Stock</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-tagi--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--field-tagi.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-tagi.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> <hr> <ul class="tags_list"> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/international-commission-jurists" hreflang="pl">International Commission of Jurists</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/abortion" hreflang="pl">abortion</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/drugs" hreflang="pl">drugs</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/prostitution" hreflang="pl">prostitution</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Fri, 23 Jun 2023 11:08:10 +0000 filip.bator 1430 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl Wave of violence against Christians in Poland. Ordo Iuris report for the OSCE https://en.ordoiuris.pl/civil-liberties/wave-violence-against-christians-poland-ordo-iuris-report-osce <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Wave of violence against Christians in Poland. Ordo Iuris report for the OSCE <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>wt., 05/09/2023 - 16:28</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p><strong>· The Ordo Iuris Institute has once again submitted a report to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe showing the scale of religiously motivated aggression against Christians in Poland.</strong></p> <p><strong>· In 2022, the Institute recorded 77 such incidents in our country.</strong></p> <p><strong>· The report describes, among other things, 2 physical attacks on Catholic priests, 4 cases of malicious disruption of Mass, 6 cases of destruction of a statue of the Infant Jesus, 12 cases of destruction of a statue of the Mother of God, and 3 performances and happenings profaning religious symbols and insulting the religious feelings of Christians.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><a href="https://ordoiuris.pl/sites/default/files/inline-files/Ordo%20Iuris%20Institute%20ODHR_2022%20.pdf"><strong>READ THE REPORT - LINK</strong></a></p> <p class="text-align-justify">The monitoring program covers crimes that have been reported in local or national media. The list includes cases of crime from all over Poland. Most of the incidents described in the report are cases of vandalism, destruction of places and objects of religious worship - churches, roadside shrines, religious statues, saints' monuments and cemeteries. </p> <p class="text-align-justify">Among the incidents recorded by the Ordo Iuris Center for Religious Freedom in its annual report on manifestations of hatred against Christians in Poland were the disruption of Mass at a church in Zabrze and Lublin, the desecration of a Catholic procession during a pseudo-artist happening and the placement in a Warsaw theater of a sculpture of a female sex organ stylized as a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, as well as the destruction of a historic stone cross that survived two world wars. The report's authors also took into account a "nativity play" staged at a school in Gdansk. The performance included a scene in which the figure of Jesus was played by a half-naked student sitting in a wheelbarrow. </p> <p class="text-align-justify">The institute also noted an attack on a parsonage in Dolice. There, a man vandalized the chancel of the church, as well as the fence, garden and door to the rectory. He also threatened the priests with death. A situation from Zabrze was also described, in which the perpetrator threatened a clergyman with a revolver. In Jaslo, on the other hand, a priest was attacked with a knife in the street.  </p> <p class="text-align-justify">- The data submitted annually by the Ordo Iuris Institute to the OSCE has remained at a similar level of intensity from year to year. So far, schools have seemed to be a place where teachers maintain standards of religious freedom. This year, however, a case of insulting the Holy Family and ridiculing Christians at a high school in Gdansk was revealed. It came to the point where teenagers acting in a play showed satanic signs to the rhythm of the music, with total approval from the teachers," stressed Magdalena Mickiewicz, coordinator of the Ordo Iuris Center for Religious Freedom.  </p> <p class="text-align-justify">For several years, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has been conducting research and analysis on the scale of the phenomenon of hatred against various social groups. Ordo Iuris lawyers have been involved in this process since 2015 by monitoring violations of religious freedom and acts of religiously motivated aggression against Christians in Poland. To this end, the Institute established in 2018. Center for Religious Freedom, which collects cases of violations of religious freedom, insults to religious feelings, insults, harassment, vandalism or other destruction of religious sites or symbols. The Center also undertakes legal interventions to protect the rights of religious believers in situations where there are violations of their freedom to profess their religion and externalize their religion through prayer, participation in religious rites, practice or teaching.  The Ordo Iuris Institute also provides legal assistance to victims of religiously motivated hate crimes.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">The OSCE report is released every year in mid-November. It collects information on hate crimes. It includes, among others, acts such as threats, property crimes, assaults, murders or any other crime motivated by hatred or prejudice. In addition, it is a prerequisite that the act in question is prohibited by law and constitutes a crime under criminal law according to the national order of the country in question.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">- It is important to sensitize society so that all manifestations of aggression motivated by religious hatred are reported. Preserving social peace should also be in the interest of those who do not identify with the Christian faith. A strong response from law enforcement is also necessary," noted attorney Magdalena Mickiewicz.</p> <p class="text-align-justify">Cases of crimes motivated by hatred against religious believers can be reported to the Ordo Iuris Center for Religious Freedom. The Ordo Iuris Institute provides professional and free legal support wherever there is a need, due to the need to protect believers whose rights are violated because of their religion. Applications are accepted at interwencja@ordoiuris.pl.</p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Kategoria } <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * image-formatter--node--aktualnosc--field-zdjecie.html.twig x image-formatter.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/artykul_full/public/2023-05/AdobeStock_269078558%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=V-i49npd" width="250" height="125" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div>Adobe Stock</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-tagi--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--field-tagi.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-tagi.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> <hr> <ul class="tags_list"> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/christians" hreflang="pl">christians</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/osce" hreflang="pl">osce</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/hate-crime" hreflang="pl">hate crime</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/christianity" hreflang="pl">christianity</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/church" hreflang="pl">church</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Tue, 09 May 2023 14:28:52 +0000 filip.bator 1423 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl Commentary to selected proposals of the Conference on the Future of Europe https://en.ordoiuris.pl/civil-liberties/commentary-selected-proposals-conference-future-europe <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/analyses_block/field--node--title--analiza-prawna.html.twig' --> Commentary to selected proposals of the Conference on the Future of Europe <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/analyses_block/field--node--title--analiza-prawna.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--analiza-prawna.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--analiza-prawna.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>śr., 07/13/2022 - 14:17</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/analyses_block/field--node--body--analiza-prawna.html.twig' --> <p class="text-align-justify"><strong>This report comments on a large part of the recommendations made at the Conference. The issues dealt with are of particular importance for Poland’s sovereignty and Polish constitutional identity.</strong></p> <p class="text-align-justify"><a data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3627103d-7d12-4878-b176-8a8527abc4ad" href="/sites/default/files/inline-files/Raport_OI_CoFoE_eng.pdf"><strong>READ THE COMMENT - LINK</strong></a></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/analyses_block/field--node--body--analiza-prawna.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-zdjecie2--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--node--field-zdjecie2.html.twig * field--node--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--field-zdjecie2.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/analyses_block/field--node--field-zdjecie2--analiza-prawna.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * image-formatter--node--analiza-prawna--field-zdjecie2.html.twig x image-formatter.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/artykul_full/public/2022-07/AdobeStock_96652553.jpeg?itok=XA6aiF9L" width="250" height="125" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/analyses_block/field--node--field-zdjecie2--analiza-prawna.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/analyses_block/field--node--field-kategoria--analiza-prawna.html.twig' --> Civil liberties <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/analyses_block/field--node--field-kategoria--analiza-prawna.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-tagi--analiza-prawna.html.twig x field--node--field-tagi.html.twig * field--node--analiza-prawna.html.twig * field--field-tagi.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> <hr> <ul class="tags_list"> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/european-union" hreflang="pl">European Union</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/cofoe" hreflang="pl">cofoe</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/conference" hreflang="pl">conference</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:17:55 +0000 filip.bator 1322 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl Murders, beatings, destruction - over 100 acts of hatred against Christians in Poland in 2021 https://en.ordoiuris.pl/civil-liberties/murders-beatings-destruction-over-100-acts-hatred-against-christians-poland-2021 <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Murders, beatings, destruction - over 100 acts of hatred against Christians in Poland in 2021 <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>pt., 04/29/2022 - 15:07</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>· The number of acts of hatred against Christians in Poland continues to increase.</b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>· The Ordo Iuris Institute once again submitted a report to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe showing the scale of sectarian aggression against Christians.</b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>· In 2022, 112 such cases were recorded in Poland.</b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>· The report describes, inter alia, 8 physical attacks on clergy, 2 of which resulted in death. There have also been cases of devastation of places of worship or disturbance of services.</b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><a href="https://ordoiuris.pl/sites/default/files/inline-files/ODIHR_Hate_Crimes_Report_Submission_Ordo_Iuris_2021.pdf"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>DOWNLOAD THE REPORT</b></span></span></span></a></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- The data provided annually by the Ordo Iuris Institute to the OSCE is becoming more and more disturbing every year. It is alarming that not only the number of hate crimes against Christians is increasing, but also a significant increase in the level of their brutality. There are more and more physical attacks on clergy, which even result in the death of the victim - emphasizes attorney Magdalena Majkowska from the Ordo Iuris Management Board.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The monitoring program covers crimes that have been reported in local or national media. Last year, a significant increase in the acts of hatred against Christians in Poland was noticeable in relation to the previous years. The number of such events described in the report has more than doubled compared to the previous year. The list includes cases of crimes from all over Poland. Most of the events described in the report are cases of vandalism, destruction of places and objects of religious worship - churches, roadside shrines, religious figures, monuments to saints and cemeteries. Moreover, not only is the number of hate crimes against Christians increasing, but at the same time these attacks are becoming more violent. Last year, the Ordo Iuris Center for Religious Freedom recorded 8 physical attacks against clergy, two of which were killed.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Among the events recorded by the Center for Religious Freedom Ordo Iuris in the annual report on manifestations of hatred against Christians in Poland, there were, among others, disrupting the Holy Mass in St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków by a woman who undressed during the liturgy and spat on a priest, destruction of over 25 graves, including children's graves, at the Łęczna cemetery, insulting the image of Our Lady of Częstochowa during a demonstration by left-wing activists in Toruń, destruction of the facade of the church building and the cross in Stary Wołów, the destruction of the historic statue of Our Lady in Koszalin, which was brought from Dachau by a former concentration camp prisoner, and an attack by an attacker using a gas gun on a priest celebrating Holy Mass in Duszniki-Zdrój.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">. It is important to sensitize the public on this topic so that all manifestations of aggression motivated by religious hatred are reported. A strong response from law enforcement is also necessary. We can see that the social consent to insulting believers, in particular the indulgent treatment of such behavior on the part of celebrities, combined with the passivity of the justice system, takes an increasingly tragic toll - adds Magdalena Majkowska.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has for several years been conducting research and analysis on the scale of the phenomenon of hatred against various social groups. Ordo Iuris lawyers have been involved in this process since 2015 by monitoring violations of religious freedom and acts of religious aggression against Christians in Poland. To this end, the Institute established in 2018 the Ordo Iuris Religious Freedom Center, which deals with the collection of cases of violations of religious freedom, insults, harassment, vandalism or other destruction of places or religious symbols, and taking legal interventions to protect the rights of persons. believers in cases where their freedom to profess their religion and to manifest their religion through prayer, participation in religious rites, practicing or teaching are violated. The Ordo Iuris Institute also provides legal assistance to victims of sectarian hate crimes.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The OSCE report is published every year in mid-November. It collects information on hate crimes. It includes, among others acts such as threats, inflicting material damage on property, assaults, murder or any other crime, the commission of which is motivated by hatred or prejudice. In addition, it is a precondition that the act in question must be prohibited by law and constitutes a criminal offense under the national law of the country concerned.</span></span></span></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Kategoria } <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig * 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--> Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:07:06 +0000 filip.bator 1295 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl Hate crimes on the rise – a Report by Ordo Iuris https://en.ordoiuris.pl/civil-liberties/hate-crimes-rise-report-ordo-iuris <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Hate crimes on the rise – a Report by Ordo Iuris <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>ndz., 01/30/2022 - 14:44</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">· In recent years, we have been witnessing a significant spike in criminal acts identified as hate crimes. This trend finds its reflection in statistics published by the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe, the Police and Prosecutor’s Office.</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">· Poland has noted a significant increase in the number of religious offences as well as violence or insults motivated by a victim’s religious background.</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">· Statistics published by the OSCE point to a significant rise in hate crime incidents targeted at Christians across Europe.</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">· The above problem is the focus of an Ordo Iuris Report. The publication also offers insight into hate crime from the perspective of the Polish Constitution, criminal law, civil law and international law.</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">· The conclusions of the Report were presented during a press conference organised by Ordo Iuris and the Polish Catholic News Agency (KAI).</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">The conviction rate for hate crimes involving violence or insults inspired by religious intolerance or dissemination of totalitarianism has been rising in Poland. In 2015, 162 people were convicted of crimes under Articles 119, 256 and 257 of the Criminal Code, while in 2018, there were 269 convictions. Moreover, in the years 2017–2020, the number of incidents in which religious sensibilities were offended nearly doubled. 70 such cases were reported in 2017, and 130 in 2020.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">“The available statistical data and estimates point to a continuous upward trend in these hate crimes. Police statistics related to religious offences provide some insights into the situation. Over the last few years, we have been observing a significant rise in criminal acts penalised under Article 196 of the Criminal Code. The year 2020, in which the Constitutional Tribunal delivered its judgement on the issue of eugenic abortion, marked the peak of this type of crimes”, said Przemysław Pietrzak, one of the report authors, during the conference.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">OSCE statistics demonstrate a dramatic increase in the number of hate crimes committed against Christians in Europe, Poland included. In its 2019 report, the Organisation noted 35 of this type of criminal incidents, while a year later, the corresponding number was already 242. However, the studies conducted by the OSCE and Commissioner for Human Rights reveal that only 5% of hate-motivated offences are reported to law enforcement authorities. As a consequence, the actual number of offences may be much higher.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">“Punishment of religious offences and hate acts inspired by religious intolerance has become a European standard. In other European countries, the justice system handles these incidents much faster, imposing enhanced penalties. Moreover, the law in some countries applies a much stricter approach to this problem”, noted Marcin Przeciszewski, President of the Polish Catholic Information Agency.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">There is no uniform or commonly accepted definition of hate crimes in international law. They are usually defined as criminal acts committed against an individual (or their associated property), due to “hatred” of their characteristics. The catalogue of such characteristics may, however, vary, depending on a wide range of social factors.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">The Polish Constitution offers a range of guarantees to protect religious freedom, prohibit dissemination of the totalitarian narrative and combat hate acts committed on the grounds of a person’s racial demographic or ethnicity. The current legislation protects interests of individuals, regardless of their broadly defined sexual orientation. Therefore, the postulates to extend the list of features of criminal offences are not justified since the requirement to ensure the implementation of related constitutional guarantees is already met by the relevant articles of the Criminal Code.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">The current public discourse often employs the concept of “hate speech”. The latter is, however, often used to “discipline” persons expressing certain views and beliefs by restricting their freedom of speech. The Ordo Iuris Report demonstrates that the efforts taken to implement the concept of hate speech understood in this particular way to the criminal law are unjustified.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:black">“The concept of hate speech is rooted in our inclination to oppose hatred, but at the same time, it has not been clearly defined and is used as a buzzword, a convenient means to limit freedom of speech and discussion. It is used as the reason for closing Facebook accounts or removing users from YouTube. It has also been used, for example, to ban a campaign of a pro-life organisation in France”, commented Jerzy Kwaśniewski President of Ordo Iuris.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Kategoria } <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * image-formatter--node--aktualnosc--field-zdjecie.html.twig x image-formatter.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/artykul_full/public/2022-02/AdobeStock_49052486.jpeg?itok=oLnedPkD" width="250" height="125" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div>Adobe Stock</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-tagi--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--field-tagi.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-tagi.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> <hr> <ul class="tags_list"> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/christianity" hreflang="pl">christianity</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/hate-crimes" hreflang="pl">hate crimes</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/osce" hreflang="pl">osce</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:44:49 +0000 filip.bator 1269 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl Gender postulates in a UN report https://en.ordoiuris.pl/family-and-marriage/gender-postulates-un-report <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Gender postulates in a UN report <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>pt., 11/12/2021 - 14:38</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">· The United Nations published a report on the implementation by its members of postulates of a policy based on the gender perspective in the legal and social sphere.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">·  The content of the report includes the definition of a gender identity as a subjective feeling of each person in isolation from their biological characteristics. In the author’s opinion, each person has the right to choose with which gender they want to identify. This right should also cover children and youths.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">·  The publication also underlined that the division of social roles based on two genders would result from a system oppressive towards women.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">·  The author of this document is Victor Madrigal-Borloz, an independent expert cooperating with the UN Human Rights Council.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">The ‘Report on Gender: The Law of Inclusion &amp; Practices of Exclusion’ was presented at the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council and the 76th UN General Assembly. The beginning of the document contains references to feminist scientific works in which the term ‘gender’ is not based on the biological determinism of gender, but on its social context. It is to affect the character of interactions in a group and the identity of each person. In other words, gender is to be only a social construct, which is why, according to the author, we should not think about it binarily, but in a manner open to more possibilities not limited by the laws of nature.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">“Importantly, the UN General Assembly has never accepted such a broad definition of gender. The Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998, similarly to many other international documents, adopts the binary definition of gender,” underlines Anna Nowak from the Centre for International Law of Ordo Iuris.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">In the content of the report, the author repeatedly emphasises that the strict division of social roles based on two genders – male and female, is a result from an alleged oppressive and patriarchal system, in which women have a lower position in relation to men and are treated as second-class citizens</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">. Victor Madrigal-Borloz attributes such a state of affairs alleged by him in the so-called Third World (Poor South) countries to the effects of European colonialism, forgetting that the culture of those nations have been developing for centuries before the arrival of the first Europeans</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">. In the next part of his work, the author indicates a possible source of the term ‘gender ideology’, i.e. religious leaders and opponents of the progressive understanding of human rights, who want to limit women’s rights, restricted by liberal groups to sexual and reproductive rights.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%">Victor Madrigal-Borloz also refers to another report presenting, in his opinion, large resources allocated by wealthy people and non-profit organisations to the so-called anti-gender movement. In 2008-2017 in the United States of America more than 6 billion USD was allocated for this purpose. However, it was not mentioned that in the same period more than 14 billion USD was allocated to the pro-gender policy. The report also referred to the institution of the Catholic Church, which is accused by the authors of a document promoting the understanding of the family concept in a way violating human rights, as well as the alleged rejection of equality between men and women.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"> </p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Kategoria } <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * image-formatter--node--aktualnosc--field-zdjecie.html.twig x image-formatter.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/artykul_full/public/2021-11/AdobeStock_36314937.jpeg?itok=mFpF6V5E" width="250" height="125" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div>Adobe Stock</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-tagi--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--field-tagi.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-tagi.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> <hr> <ul class="tags_list"> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/united-nations" hreflang="pl">United nations</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/gender" hreflang="pl">gender</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:38:25 +0000 filip.bator 1249 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl Ordo Iuris responds to the European Commission’s allegations, siding with the LGBT movement https://en.ordoiuris.pl/family-and-marriage/ordo-iuris-responds-european-commissions-allegations-siding-lgbt-movement <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Ordo Iuris responds to the European Commission’s allegations, siding with the LGBT movement <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--title--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/116" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">filip.bator</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>pon., 09/20/2021 - 15:17</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">• The European Commission has filed a number of charges against Poland.</span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">• In February 2021 the EC accused the Polish government that, while respecting the autonomy of local governments that have adopted pledges to protect families from threats from ideologized LGBT movements, it may be discriminating on the grounds of sexual orientation. In doing so, the Commission continues to use the false term 'LGBT (-ideology) free zones'.</span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">• The Polish government responded in April, but in July the Commission deemed this response insufficient and announced that it would investigate the situation in Poland to determine whether there was a risk of a serious breach by a Member State of the values of the Union. In September it warned the regional marshals they will lose EU funding for declaring opposition to "LGBT ideology".</span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">• The current actions are a consequence of the European Union strategy "for LGBTIQ equality" that the Commission adopted in November 2020.</span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">• Ordo Iuris Institute wishes to recall the report on the strategy and presents a comprehensive critical analysis of the European Commission's actions, to be distributed to national and EU bodies.</span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><a href="https://ordoiuris.pl/sites/default/files/inline-files/Raport_OI_Against_discrimination.pdf"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">READ THE REPORT - LINK</span></strong></span></span></span></a></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">“The Ordo Iuris Institute identifies the need for a precise and thorough presentation of the current legal and factual situation concerning the slander of some local governments for introducing the so-called ‘zones free of extreme leftist ideology’. Activity in this area constitutes an effective, substantive and comprehensive response to the actions of the misled European Commission,” comments Łukasz Bernaciński, Director of the Centre for Legislative Analyses.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">On 16 February 2021 the European Commission addressed a letter to the Polish authorities in response to "a number of letters from NGOs and individuals complaining that in 2019 more than 90 Polish municipalities, districts and provinces adopted resolutions opposing the so-called 'LGBT ideology' or declaring that these places are a zone free of such 'ideology'". In the opinion of the authors of these letters, such resolutions constitute a violation of EU law.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">In a letter of 19 April, the Polish government, through the office of the Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, responded to the allegations, but the Commission considered it insufficient. Subsequently, on 15 July, it announced that it would examine the situation concerning Poland with regard to Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, concerning the Council's finding of a risk of a serious breach by a Member State of the values of the Union. On 14 September these actions were supported in a separate resolution by the European Parliament, which called on the Commission to "make full use of the tools available to it" against Poland and Hungary.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">The authors of the resolution revealed their ideological motivations, calling for the imposition of an obligation on all Member States to recognise homosexual concubinages as marriage, and persons with transgender-related disorders as parents. They also expressed the view that that “EU law prevails over any type of national law, including over conflicting constitutional provisions, and that therefore, Member States cannot, invoke any constitutional ban on same-sex marriage or constitutional protection of ‘morals’ or ‘public policy’ in order to obstruct the fundamental right to free movement of persons within the EU in violation of the rights of rainbow families that move to their territory”. This amounts to a clear breach of Treaty obligations and Article 9 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and an attack on the pro-family declarations made by Poland in 2003 and 2007, subsequently confirmed by the Polish Parliament.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">Further, on 3 September the Commission warned the marshals of the Lubelskie, Łódzkie, Małopolskie, Podkarpackie and Świętokrzyskie provinces it would suspend funding under the REACT-EU programme in respect of regional operational programmes', demanding 'any corrective action on the declarations'. Significantly, none of these provinces has established any "zone", and the Łódzkie province in particular should not be equated with the other four, as it has adopted a Local Government Charter on the Rights of Families, which does not contain any reference to the LGBT movement - but consists of positive, pro-family postulates.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Ordo Iuris Institute has undertaken a comprehensive response to the European Commission's action to punish Poland for allegedly introducing so-called "LGBT-free zones". Earlier this year, Ordo Iuris drafted an extensive report which critically analyses the European Commission's LGBTIQ Equality Strategy for 2020-2025. The Institute is now complementing it with an analysis in which it assesses the European Union's legal options with regard to the European Commission's announced proceedings against Poland for the alleged existence of the so-called "LGBT-free zones". It also provides substantive answers to all 4 of the 12 questions posed by the European Commission, which can be answered without having detailed statistical data to which only public administrations have access.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="text-align-justify" style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" xml:lang="EN-GB">The European Commission's current action follows its adoption in November 2020 of the first European Union strategy "for LGBTIQ equality". Previously, the Commission had not adopted a stance on such issues, confirmed by a document of similar stature. Although the Strategy adopted by the Commission is not binding, it sets out the Commission's policy direction and has interpretative value in the interpretation of existing legislation. The Strategy contains attempts to introduce new notions and categories of rights that are not supported by existing standards and for which there is no consensus among EU Member States. These attempts are also an expression of unauthorised attempts to go beyond the competences granted to the Union in the Treaties and the principles of proportionality and subsidiarity, and they strike directly at the Polish constitutional order. Significantly, the Commission's document reproduces false information disseminated in the public domain by radical activists concerning the alleged existence of "LGBT-free zones" in Europe.</span></span></span></span></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--body--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-kategoria.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> Kategoria } <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-kategoria--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zdjecie.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * image-formatter--node--aktualnosc--field-zdjecie.html.twig x image-formatter.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/artykul_full/public/2021-09/AdobeStock_226752118.jpeg?itok=TRlVNJVe" width="250" height="125" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/news_block/field--node--field-zdjecie--aktualnosc.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--node--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-zrodlo-zdjecia.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div>Adobe Stock</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/themes/stable/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-tagi--aktualnosc.html.twig x field--node--field-tagi.html.twig * field--node--aktualnosc.html.twig * field--field-tagi.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> <hr> <ul class="tags_list"> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/ordo-iuris" hreflang="pl">Ordo Iuris</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/report" hreflang="pl">report</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/european-union" hreflang="pl">European Union</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/european-commission" hreflang="pl">european commission</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/lgbt" hreflang="pl">LGBT</a></li> <li class="label label-ordo2"><a href="/zone" hreflang="pl">zone</a></li> </ul> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/ordoiuris/templates/page_node/field--node--field-tagi.html.twig' --> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:17:44 +0000 filip.bator 1237 at https://en.ordoiuris.pl