The Polish People's Party is an agrarian political party in Poland. It is currently led by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
Irena Stanisława Sendler (née Krzyżanowska),also referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland,nom de guerreJolanta,was a Polish humanitarian,social worker,and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota,the Polish Council to Aid Jews.
The Greens is a political party in Poland.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) people in Poland face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. According to ILGA-Europe's 2023 report,the status of LGBTQ rights in Poland is the worst among the European Union countries.
Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke,also known by his initials JKM or simply as Korwin,is a Polish far-right politician,paleolibertarian and author. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018. He was the leader of the Congress of the New Right (KNP),which was formed in 2011 from Liberty and Lawfulness,which he led from its formation in 2009,and the Real Politics Union,which he led from 1990 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003. He was the chairman of the party KORWiN until his resignation on 15 October 2022,and from 2019 to 2023 a member of the Sejm,elected from the electoral list of Confederation Liberty and Independence.
Vladimir Luxuria,is an Italian activist,television personality and actress. Luxuria was a Communist Refoundation Party MP,belonging to The Union coalition led by Romano Prodi.
Robert Biedroń is a Polish politician,former mayor of Słupsk,and LGBT activist who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019..
Human rights in Poland are enumerated in the second chapter of its Constitution,ratified in 1997. Poland is a party to several international agreements relevant to human rights,including the European Convention on Human Rights,the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,the Helsinki Accords,the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,the International Covenant on Economic,Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Party of Regions was a left-wing Polish non-parliamentary political party created in November 2007 and registered in February 2008. The Party of Regions was created by former members of Self-Defence and the Democratic Left Alliance after the parliamentary election in 2007,when Self-Defence support collapsed to far less than the 5% electoral threshold giving them no seats in the new legislature. Founders of the grouping included Krzysztof Filipek,Danuta Hojarska and Bolesław Borysiuk. For failure to disclose their financial records for the year 2015,they were struck off in early 2017.
Europa Plus was a pro-European centre-left coalition of parties in Poland,formed to contest the 2014 European Parliament election. The alliance described itself as a "modern centre-left formation".
Your Movement was a social liberal,populist and anti-clerical political party in Poland. The party was founded by Janusz Palikot,a former Civic Platform MP,in October 2010 as Palikot's Movement. The party is classified as a centre-left to left-wing party in the context of Polish politics.
Homosexuality has been legal in Poland since 1932. However,homosexuality has been a taboo subject for most of Poland's history,and that and the lack of legal discrimination have often led to a lack of historical sources on the subject. Homophobia has been a common public attitude in Poland because of the influence of Catholic Church in Polish public life and the widespread social conservatism in Poland. Homosexuality in Poland was decriminalized in 1932,but criminalized following the 1939 Soviet and Nazi Invasion.
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 10 and 24 May 2015. In the first round of voting Law and Justice (PiS) candidate,lawyer and Member of the European Parliament,Andrzej Duda received the greatest number of votes with a share of 34.76%,followed by incumbent president Bronisław Komorowski,who ran as an independent with the endorsement of the Civic Platform (PO),which he had renounced his membership in after winning the 2010 elections. Independent candidate PawełKukiz came third with 20.80% of the votes. As no candidate had received more than 50% of the votes cast,a second round was held on 24 May between the two highest-placed candidates,Duda and Komorowski. This round was won by Duda with 51.5% of the votes,to Komorowski's 48.5%.
Warsaw Shore or Warsaw Shore:Ekipa z Warszawy is a Polish reality television series broadcast on MTV. Based in Warsaw,it was first broadcast on 10 November 2013,and is the Polish spin-off of the American show Jersey Shore.
Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg is a Polish historian,computer programmer,doctor of humanities,and left-wing politician serving as a member of the Sejm for Warsaw I. He is one of the co-leaders of Left Together.
Wanda Hanna Nowicka is a Polish activist and politician,Member of Parliament of Poland during 7th (2011–2015) and 9th terms (2019–2023). She served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from 8 November 2011 to 11 November 2015.
Fundacja Trans-Fuzja is a Polish LGBT rights organization. It was founded in February 2008 and acquired the status of a public interest organisation (OPP),working to better the wellbeing of transgender people in Poland.
Jej Perfekcyjność was a Polish stand-upper,sociologist,lecturer,author and social activist,founder and long-term president of Queer UW,president of the management board of the Pro Diversity Foundation,secretary of the management board of the Wolontariat Równości Foundation and president of the LGBT Business Forum Foundation. She identified as an agender-transgender person and used she/her pronouns,however she stated she accepted the use of other pronouns when referring to her.
