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European Parliamentarians heading to Warsaw Pride
On Saturday June 3rd, the seventeenth edition of the Equality Parade will take place in Warsaw. From the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights, co- and vice-presidents Ulrike Lunacek MEP and Sophie in ‘t Veld MEP , as well as member …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on June 2nd, 2017
Polish President vetoes gender recognition bill
Last Friday, Polish President Andrzej Duda, vetoed the Gender Accordance Act. The bill was hailed as the country’s first gender recognition legislation in history. It would have foreseen that gender recognition could proceed to any unmarried Polish citizen, who had …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on October 6th, 2015
Open letter to Lech Wałęsa on disparaging comments about LGBT people
Members of the European Parliament wrote today to former Polish President Lech Wałęsa, protesting earlier remarks about LGBT people. A Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Solidarność leader, Mr Wałęsa said on Polish TV that homosexual lawmakers had no right to sit on …
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Posted in: Intergroup documents, Recent news on March 15th, 2013
Polish Minister for Equal Treatment sends censorship requests to organisations and media
Following reports that the European Commission disagreed with her interpretation of EU law, Polish Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment Elżbieta Radziszewska formally requested that Polish media and non-governmental organisations take down articles reporting on this disagreement.
Tags: anti-discrimination european commission polandPosted in: Press releases, Recent news on November 3rd, 2010
Open letter to Polish Minister following censorship threats
Following requests by the Polish Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment to take down articles reporting on her disagreement with the European Commission, MEPs wrote in support of the statements, and warning against libel threats to the media and non-governmental organisations.
Tags: anti-discrimination european commission polandPosted in: Intergroup documents, Recent news on November 3rd, 2010
European Commission disagrees with the Polish Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment
The European Commission has responded to parliamentary questions from Michael Cashman and Raül Romeva i Rueda MEPs, following remarks made on TV by the Polish Government’s Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment.
Tags: anti-discrimination european commission parliamentary question polandPosted in: Parliamentary work, Recent news on October 26th, 2010
MEPs ask urgent questions to the Commission on Polish Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment
Following a growing row in Poland over homophobic comments by the Government’s Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, Members of the European Parliament have asked the European Commission to clarify their position over several points.
Tags: anti-discrimination european commission parliamentary question polandPosted in: Parliamentary work, Recent news on September 27th, 2010
Historic European LGBT pride underway in Poland
The 18th edition of Europride, the annual European lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride event, is underway. Saturday 17 July will see the festival culminate with tens of thousands marching in Warsaw; this is the first time the European …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on July 14th, 2010
Polish Human Rights Ombudsman supported Intergroup complaint
Polish Human Rights Ombudsman Dr Janusz Kochanowski, recently deceased in the tragic Smolensk plane accident, had recently written to the Intergroup.
Tags: hate speech polandPosted in: News stories, Recent news on April 13th, 2010
The European Court of Human Rights keeps Poland in line with LGBT rights
The European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights welcomed a recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights. The court in Strasbourg ruled that Poland was wrong to deny de facto same-sex couples the rights afforded to their heterosexual counterparts. …
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Posted in: News stories, Press releases, Recent news on March 5th, 2010
2010 The European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBTI Rights