Advocacy - Association for Legal Intervention

Advocacy

Association for Legal Intervention`s advocacy is aimed at guaranteeing respect for the fundamental rights of migrants as well as improving the policy and practice regarding their functioning in Poland.

We run social campainigs and regularly appear in media in order to contribute to the public debate on topics related to migrants and refugees. We counter negative stereotypes and fake news concerning migration.

We monitor the legislation in the field of migration and asylum and actively participate in public consultations of bills in this field. In order to reach our advocacy goals we collaborate with a wide network of stakeholders: such as civil society organizations, decision makers, politicians, experts and academics.

We participate in the Universal Periodic Review of Poland before the United Nations

This year Poland takes part in the Universal Periodic Review conducted by the United Nations. This process, held every 4.5 years, is aimed at checking the state of respect for human rights in all countries of the interna…

Together against the new EU legislation on instrumentalisation in the area of migration and asylum

In September 2022, SIP signed a joint statement by more than 70 European NGOs opposing the adoption of a new EU law: the Regulation on the situation of instrumentalisation in the area of migration and asylum. The stateme…

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

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…

We present the SIP in Action Report for 2021

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…