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Asylum-seekers and migrants have been transiting through Belarus in order to reach the European Union.
UNDP

UN agencies shocked by deaths near Belarus-Poland border 

21 September 2021
Migrants and Refugees

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and migration agency IOM, called on Tuesday for an immediate investigation into the deaths of four people near the border between Poland and Belarus, due to causes yet to be determined.  

Seoul, South Korea
Unsplash/ Thomas Roger Lux

News in Brief 28 October 2020

28 October 2020
News in Brief
  • UN chief hails Republic of Korea’s vow to achieve carbon neutrality 
  • Rights experts decry Poland’s anti-abortion reform 
  • UN builds momentum for restoring forests in key decade for ecosystems 
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Poland's capital, Warsaw, at night. (file photo)
ILO/MFA/Piotr Malecki

Poland ‘slammed the door shut’ on legal and safe abortions: Human rights experts

27 October 2020
Human Rights

A group of UN independent human rights experts have denounced a court ruling in Poland that bans abortions on the grounds of fatal or severe foetal impairment, effectively “slamming the door shut” on safe and legal pregnancy terminations.  

Demonstrators unfurl a flag in support of democracy in Belarus.
Kseniya Halubovich

Rise to the occasion to tackle injustice, Bachelet urges Human Rights Council

14 September 2020
Human Rights

UN Member States gathered in person in Geneva on Monday for a new session of the Human Rights Council, where UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet urged countries to “rise to the occasion” to tackle injustice everywhere.

Chechen children play outside at a centre for asylum-seekers in Horbów, eastern Poland.
© UNHCR/Rafal Kostrzynski

Protect people ‘fleeing war, violence’, UN refugee agency urges Poland 

24 July 2020
Migrants and Refugees

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday encouraged Poland to fall in line with its international obligations, and allow asylum seekers access. 

Paweł Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdansk, Poland, pictured in January 2018. 
UNHCR/Rafal Kostrzynski

UN refugee agency ‘deeply shocked’ at stabbing death of ‘deeply courageous’ Polish mayor

14 January 2019
Migrants and Refugees

The Mayor of the historic port city of Gdansk in Poland, has died in hospital after being stabbed at a televised charity event on Sunday, prompting the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, to issue a statement on Monday praising him as “a deeply courageous, moral leader, who showed the way in helping refugees and migrants to integrate”.

Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Idea of ‘homogenous’ Polish culture is a myth: UN human rights expert

5 October 2018
Human Rights

An independent UN rights expert has accused the Polish Government of  disseminating the “myth” of a “homogenous” Polish culture, in a statement released on Friday.

Carmen Barroso.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

UN Population Award recognizes importance of women’s health

24 June 2016
General News

A leading Brazilian social scientist and a Polish childbirth organization have been named as the recipients of this year’s UN Population Award.

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President Lech Kaczynski of Poland

UN tributes continue after Polish leader and other senior officials are killed

12 April 2010
The General Assembly President and the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added their voices to UN tributes after the Polish President and many senior Government and military figures in his country were killed in a plane crash.
Sculpture of Artur Rubinstein playing piano

Poland donates sculpture of piano virtuoso Artur Rubinstein to UN

26 September 2003
Poland has presented the United Nations with a gift of a sculpture of Artur Rubinstein playing piano, commemorating his presence at the world body's founding in San Francisco almost 60 years ago.