An appeals court in Poland says that it will rule next month in the case of a women's rights activist convicted in 2023 of ...

Monica Costa Riba, Amnesty International's Women's Rights Senior Campaigner, condemned on Thursday the verdict in the case of Justyna Vydrinska, a human rights activist convicted of helping a woman ...

Poland is debating changes to its near-total abortion ban on Thursday, re-opening one of the country’s thorniest social and political debates in an effort to overhaul some of the strictest laws ...

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Parliamentary work on relaxing Poland's restrictive abortion laws will resume only after the presidential election scheduled for May, a senior ...

She said she has low expectations for dramatic changes to Poland’s abortion policies before the 2025 presidential election, when Duda’s term is up. “As an activist, I’m happy to see ...

Supporters of women's rights activist Justyna Wydrzynska before a Warsaw court where Wydrzynska's appeal was being heard of a 2023 conviction for providing abortion pills to another woman, before the ...

Thousands of people have blocked roads across Poland on the fifth consecutive day of protests against a court's near-total ban on abortion. In the capital Warsaw, protesters blocked the main ...

Poland's abortion laws were already among the strictest in Europe but the Constitutional Tribunal's ruling will mean an almost total ban. Once the decision comes into effect, terminations will ...

As US President Donald Trump takes office following a campaign where access to abortion was a central theme, Europe also ...

A group of women with a poster and a loudspeaker take part in a protest against the tightening of the abortion law in Poland. Women's protest. A group of women with a poster and a loudspeaker take ...

The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.