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Compensation for unjust deprivation of liberty of an unaccompanied child

4 May 202215 December 2023

The District Court in Olsztyn, in its judgment of 15 March 2022, II Ko 192/21, awarded compensation in the amount of PLN 20,000.00 for wrongful placement of an unaccompanied minor in a guarded center for foreigners. T…

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…

Pushbacks are inhumane, illegal and based on illegal regulation – the Court says

31 March 202214 December 2023

The first Polish court ruling indicating that push-backs on the Polish-Belarusian border are inhumane and illegal. The regulation constituting the basis for the actions of the Border Guard deemed to have been issued in e…

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…

Share your 1% with us

24 March 202224 March 2022

Donate 1% to fight for equal rights – KRS: 0000240024 The war in Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border made our actions necessary more than ever. In 2021, more than 1,000 fo…

The Association of Legal Intervention has submitted proposal of amendments to the new law on providing help to Ukrainian citizens

23 March 202211 April 2023

Together with The Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights and “Nomada” Association we submitted to the chief of the Polish Sejm’s Interior Affairs Commission our amendment proposals to the bill from March 12th, 2022, on prov…

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.…

Poland violates European Law. We react and file a complaint to the European Commission

20 December 202111 April 2023

The Association of Legal Intervention has filed a formal complaint to the European Commission against Poland's violation of European Union law in connection with the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border.

The novelization of the national border security bill violates the Constitution of Poland

19 November 202111 April 2023

On the 15th of November, 2021 on the Polish Sejm website the governmental novelization of border security law and other laws has occurred (print.doc.1754). As a project justification, the legislator has pointed out the u…

Why should Afghans be allowed in from the border?

11 November 202127 February 2024

We have no doubt that the people who have been camping for several days on the Belarusian-Polish border should have the right to apply for refugee status in Poland. Below we explain why. International law States ha…

Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian CSOs call on the European Commission to take action

3 November 202111 April 2023

Association for Legal Intervention joined by Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian civil society organisations, has called on the European Commission to take immediate action to prevent further push- backs and deaths at the Bel…

New draft law on refugees violates international legal standards

21 September 202111 April 2023

A draft Act on amending the Act on migrants and the Act on granting protection to migrants within the territory of the Republic of Poland appeared on the website of the Sejm. The draft Act blatantly violates Polish inter…

We are temporarily re-organizing our office to respond to the border-related challenges

21 September 20213 November 2021

ATTENTION! Due to the dramatic situation in the area of the Polish-Belarusian border, we are temporarily redirecting all our lawyers there. It is there, where refugees are secretly taken to the forest and denied the r…