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People who fled from Ukraine should be allowed to re-enter Poland – SIP’s opinion

19 July 202214 December 2023

There are people who fled from Ukraine to Poland and then decided to return to Ukraine and then want to re-enter Poland. We are receiving more and more information that such people face difficulties in relation to re-ent…

The seminar: Pushbacks, illegal, harmful and hurtful practice of EU border management

13 July 202211 April 2023

We would like to invite you for an online seminar “Pushbacks or collective expulsions? Illegal, harmful and hurtful practice of EU border management”. The seminar will take place on July 28th between 12 and 16 pm on Z…

SIP files a complaint against the refusal to admit psychologists to guarded centres

1 July 202211 April 2023

Despite the overcrowding and the deteriorating situation in guarded centres for foreigners, including the inability to provide adequate psychological assistance to those detained there, the Border Guard refuses to provid…

We present our comments to the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance

22 June 202211 April 2023

As part of the Council of Europe, the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) prepares reports and recommendations on the fight against racism, discrimination, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance…

We present the SIP in Action Report for 2021

15 June 202227 February 2024

Year 2021 was a year of challenges for non-governmental organizations operating in the field of human rights protection. The humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border has grown to a size that we have not seen i…

We are working for equal access to rights and benefits for Ukrainian citizens

14 June 202211 April 2023

We requested the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration to take measures to ensure in practice equal access of all persons covered by the Law of the Day on Assistance to Citizens of Ukraine in Connection with th…

Pleading against Poland for the detention of a traumatised family with children

14 June 202215 December 2023

SIP brought a complaint before the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of a family who had been held in guarded centres for foreigners for more than 6 months. The case concerns a family from Iraq (parents with tw…

Obligation to examine whether migrants in Belarus are at risk of torture and other inhumane treatment

14 June 202214 December 2023

Foreigners cannot be pushed into Belarus if they would be in danger of torture, inhuman or otherwise unacceptable treatment there. Neither a migration crisis nor illegal border crossings exclude the application of this p…

We provide the brochure “Unaccompanied child in Poland and Ukraine. Law and institutions: basic issues”

28 April 202211 April 2023

We present the brochure “Unaccompanied child in Poland and Ukraine. Law and institutions: basic issues” which authors are Legal Counsel Agnieszka Kwaśniewska-Sadkowska and Doctor of Law Kateryna Krakhmalova in coop…

Information on the observance of human rights under the UN procedure of the Universal Periodic Review

4 April 202211 April 2023

Together with the Lambda Warsaw Organization and the Global Detention Project, the Association of Legal Intervention has submitted information on the observance of human rights under the UN Universal Periodic Review proc…

Our association presented its remarks to the Committee of Prevention of Torture

25 March 202211 April 2023

Together with The Global Detention Project (GDP), we put together a joint statement to The European Council Committee of Prevention of Torture, in which we presented our remarks. This scripture is only a part of ongoing…

SIP complains about the inhumane treatment of refugees.

15 February 202211 April 2023

We are suing Poland before the European Court of Human Rights for inhuman and degrading conditions in guarded centers for foreigners and for illegal collective deportations of refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border.…