Poland must end logging in Bialowieza forest, Europe’s oldest, court rules
Europe’s top court orders the ban after Warsaw backed a rise in logging in Bialowieza forest.
Duda vetoed bills that give politicians power to remove judges and the justice minister to appoint court presidents.
Women are playing a key role in the ongoing Polish protests – and this time they won’t be silenced.
Members of Polish Women Strike lie down on the road outside Parliament in silent protest at the moment “democracy died”, while fellow protestors hold up umbrellas to shield them from the rain. Photo by Łukasz Kohut. All rights reserved.
In 2014, the Polish documentary ‘Solidarity according to Women’ attempted to reinstate the key role that several women played in the rise and success of the 1980s Solidarity movement.
Poland’s president rejects a controversial law to replace Supreme Court judges with political nominees.