Summary: General overview of Poland's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of CRC in national law
Articles 87(1) and 91(1) of the Constitution...
Summary: This report summarises the status of children's rights in Poland vis-a-vis European human rights mechanisms.Search CRIN's ratifications table to find regional instruments to which Poland is a party.
European Court of Human Rights
Poland is...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
[30 October 2012] - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday condemned Poland's treatment of a 14-year-old rape victim who sought an abortion. The victim initially faced charges of unlawful intercourse by the...
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholders...
To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
Summary: This report looks at Poland's current laws and recent legal reform in relation to the sexual exploitation of children and child-friendly justice.This is part of a series of reports reviewing the implementation of the Optional Protocol on...
The issue
Article 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly states that every child has “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents”. When a child is abandoned, this right is violated....
Summary: This report contains an analysis of the current status of mental health of young people in conflict with the law conducted in eight European countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and UK). The document...
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Developments on the use of the death penalty in 2011 confirmed the global trend towards abolition. The number of countries that were...
