In 1999, the Federal Government presented its 1st "Action Plan to Combat Violence against Women" (API). Its main objectives were, inter alia, to create a model for action...
In 1997 the Federal Government set up the Working Group (WG) on Trafficking in Women. In 2013 the WG changed its name to WG trafficking in persons, to reflect the broadened scope...
Protecting children and young persons from sexual abuse and exploitation is one of the Federal Governments major concerns. For this reason, the Federal Cabinet adopted the Action...
Domestic violence prevention and prosecution of perpetrators is one of the priorities of the Polish police. Domestic violence is described as a separate crime in the Polish Penal...
At the beginning of the 1990s there was a growth trafficking in human beings observed in Poland. At present, Poland is not only a country of origin of victims but also a transit...
There is no strategic or national approach to reduce sexual crime or violence in Poland but in several national programmes and strategies this problem is described. Sexual crimes...
The project is addressed mostly to Polish citizens as another awareness raising project directed at foreign nationals was carried out by International Organization for Migration in...
$232 StGB: (1) Whosoever recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or receives another person, either under twenty-one years of age or by taking advantage of that person’s personal...
Art. 115 § 22. Trafficking in people is recruiting, transporting, delivering, transferring, storing or accepting people by using: 1) violence or the unlawful threat of violence, 2)...