Berlin — Women began striking across Poland on Wednesday in response to a court ruling that imposed a near-total ban on abortions in the country. The ruling made it illegal to terminate a pregnancy in ...

Natalia Broniarczyk, of the Abortion Dream Team, a group that holds workshops offering advice to Polish women on how to obtain a medical abortion, poses for a portrait a banner that reads "Thank God ...

Kacpura is the Executive Director of the Federation for Women and Family Planning in Poland Poland’s anti-abortion laws have always been among the most restrictive in Europe. Until this week the ...

PRACE MALE, Poland — When 22-year-old Hanna Antoniuk arrived on the Polish border, one of the first things she noticed was all the men offering rides. She had fled Ukraine alone. It was night. And the ...

In his contribution to IFEX’s series marking International Women’s Day, Regional Editor Cathal Sheerin looks at how, under the ruling Law and Justice Party, Polish women are facing greater ...

Poland has some of Europe’s strictest abortion laws, and further curbs in recent years have led to mass protests. But many in the historically Catholic nation are staunch supporters of government ...

WARSAW, Poland — Women’s rights activists in Poland staged protests during Sunday church services in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation against a tightening of the nation’s already restrictive ...

Marta Gorczynska got in her car and started driving. She didn’t have a destination as she passed through Warsaw’s mostly deserted streets, but, just before noon last Tuesday, she got a text with ...

WARSAW — Poland’s top human rights official Thursday denounced a top court ruling that amounts to a near-total ban on abortion, saying it imposes a severe limitation on women’s rights and “condemns ...

Demonstrators took to the churches across the country and disrupted services. WARSAW -- “Poland is an example for Europe and the world”, chanted the hundreds of pro-life activists gathered outside the ...