Full Coverage: Poland

18.04.2008 The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world.
From: Center for Reproductive Rights

28.06.2007 With close to 9 million Poles in the United States, it would seem a natural for young Poles to come here looking for work, but for various reasons, they are saying "Who needs America?"

11.06.2007 According to a report released Friday by the Council of Europe, U.S. officials secretly operated illegal prisons in Poland and Romania where "techniques tantamount to torture" were employed against those considered terrorism suspects.
From: Human Rights Watch

17.05.2007 Poland's president and prime minister, former freedom fighters, are reintroducing the habits of authoritarianism, says Hilary Davies.
From Prospect magazine

06.12.2006 MSB, a company based in Gdansk in Northern Poland, is seriously in breech of labour legislation rules in regard to its work sites in Finland in what amounts to dumping working conditions. Polish electricians have been paid only 5 hours per hour, a third of the hourly rate laid down by the Finnish collective agreement.

23.08.2006 ACCION International is backing lending organizations in new markets, as it announced Tuesday it will extend loan guarantees to help spur small business opportunities in Poland and the Republic of Georgia.

14.02.2006 The Warsaw School of Economics organizes the Warsaw 2006 Summer University, 8-23 July 2006. The School will offer courses in two topics: “Poland – Competing for the Future” and “Business Management in Changing Europe”.

18.08.2005 As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites.

04.11.2004 Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline aims to curb its escalating research bill by adopting a cost-cutting measure of shifting a third of its clinical trials to India and Poland from the UK.

02.11.2004 Uusimpien mielipidetutkimusten perusteella kehitysyhteistyö on tuttu asia suurelle osalle puolalaisista, mutta samaa ei voi sanoa kotimaassa tehtävästä kansainvälisyyskasvatuksesta. Suvaitsevaisuus-ja solidaarisuustyöllä on kuitenkin pitkät perinteet Puolassa. Erityisesti siteet entisiin sosialistisiin maihin ovat olleet vahvat.

22.07.2004 A cinque anni dall’entrata in vigore, il primo marzo 1999, della Convenzione di Ottawa che vieta l’uso, la produzione ed il commercio delle mine antipersona e a pochi mesi dalla sua prima conferenza di revisione (che si terrà a Nairobi a fine novembre), sono ancora 42 gli Stati che non hanno aderito alla messa al bando di questi ordigni. Tra questi si contano alcuni “grandi nomi” del Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite: Cina, Russia e USA; Paesi produttori ed utilizzatori quali India, Pakistan, Nepal, Birmania; e ancora tre dei 25 membri dell’Unione Europea: Finlandia, Lettonia e Polonia.

05.04.2004 Tune in to watch Hands On: Cash - No Questions, 10 & 11 April, part of TVE’s award-winning Earth Report series broadcast on BBC World. This episode goes to Brazil, USA, Mexico, UK, Poland and India to report on innovative microcredit schemes that are putting profits from green enterprise back into the community.

23.03.2004 Japan, Poland and Ukraine are partnering to set up a network of distance learning centres at Ukrainian universities, using digital technology to boost the number of computer science graduates.

09.03.2004 Poland’s governing Social Democrats plan to present a bill at the end of this month on easing the abortion law, which ranks among Europe's most restrictive abortion legislation.

29.04.2003 Poland should drop plans for an expressway through protected areas in the north-east and consider an alternative route, a leading conservation group said today.

09.01.2003 Poland should improve its ICT infrastructure and reduce charges for Internet access, participants of a series of debates on making the country an information society said.

14.11.2002 Poland must act immediately to end severe discrimination against Roma, particularly in employment, housing, health and education, an international public interest law organisation told a United Nations committee currently considering the country's rights performance.

13.11.2002 Violence against women has not been tackled in Poland partly because of failure to enforce legislation, a leading human rights organisation said today as a United Nations committee began examining Poland's rights record.

03.09.2002

08.04.2002 A pattern of legal harassment appears to be emerging against Poland's leading free newspapers and their parent companies, according to a press freedom organisation.