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After six years, the President of the Open Dialogue Foundation, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, was finally able to come back to Poland. “We have submitted a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office regarding the abuse of power which was most likely commissioned by Messrs Wąsik, Kamiński and the then head of the Internal Security Agency,” said Bartosz […]

“One year after the change of power, yet hundreds of people are still being prosecuted by the Prosecutor’s Office on charges tailored by the Law and Justice party,” says Bartosz Kramek, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Open Dialogue Foundation, in an interview with naTemat.  This includes organisers of local Women’s Strike, participants in […]

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Several NGOs, Radio Wolna PL (Free Poland), Themis Judges Association and more than 30 public figures have submitted a public appeal to the Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar. The signatories draw attention to the need for a “fair, transparent and comprehensive review of politically motivated criminal proceedings” initiated during Zbigniew Ziobro’s days as Prosecutor General. […]

Warsaw, 29 November 2024 Prof. Adam BodnarAttorney General of the Republic of PolandMinister of Justice Prosecutor Dariusz KornelukNational Prosecutor Prosecutor Katarzyna KwiatkowskaChairperson of the Panel of Prosecutors to investigate cases of public interest by virtue of their subject matter and nature,conducted and completed between 2016 and 2023 Honourable Minister, Honourable Prosecutors, We, the authors of […]

Critical challenges surrounding privacy and financial rights were at the forefront of our interventions at this year’s Warsaw Human Dimension Conference (WHDC), Europe’s leading forum for human rights dialogue organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Below is a brief overview of our interventions, the appeals we made to policymakers, and […]

Introduction Daniyar Khasenov is a Kazakhstani human rights defender who was forced to leave Kazakhstan in 2019 due to politically motivated criminal prosecution. The Kazakhstani authorities are continuing a transnational repression against Khasenov because of his human rights and expert work. In July 2023, the Lithuanian Migration Department refused to grant Daniyar Khasenov asylum or […]

Since February 2024, with dozens of humanitarian missions to Ukraine we’ve delivered millions of Euros worth of aid – both to civilians and Ukraine’s defenders on the front line. Simultaneously we’ve supported thousands of women and children seeking shelter in Poland. Now, finally, we found a way to also help the heroes who lost the […]

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have lost their limbs. Many of them, like Alexander Kulyk, a Lviv native and former entrepreneur, are now undergoing rehabilitation at the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Centre in Lviv. “It happened near Bachmut, when I was launching a drone and was […]

On September 28, 2024, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, president of the Open Dialogue Foundation and a Ukrainian human rights defender, and Bota Jardemalie, a New York lawyer, Kazakh human rights defender, and Belgian political refugee, took part in the Proof of Work Summit and discussed how the misuse of AML and CFT laws and the weaponization of […]

Bota Jardemalie: The way from Harvard law graduate to prominent human rights defender “Human rights are the cornerstone of our freedom and dignity, the basis for economic prosperity, and the foundation for a just and equitable society. Defending them in Kazakhstan is crucial because, without these fundamental rights, my country has no future. Without them, […]

Paul Van Tigchelt, Minister of JusticeCellule stratégique et secrétariat du Vice-Premier ministre et Ministre de la Justice et de la Mer du NordFINTO – Boulevard du jardin Botanique, 50/65 – 6ème étage1000 Bruxelles, Belgique [email protected] Direction Générale « Législation, Libertés et Droits fondamentaux », Boulevardde Waterloo, 115, 1000 Brussels, Belgium,[email protected] The European Parliament, European Council and European Commission, The U.S. […]