Category: Society
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4Liberty.eu REVIEW #14: The Effects of COVID-19-Induced Transition to Remote Work on Gender Equality
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a boom in the use of digital solutions like Zoom or Microsoft Teams, enabling employees across the world to continue working at home, away from their now empty offices. Some companies have struggled to adapt, clinging to the hope of a speedy return to the old normal. Others, like Google, Microsoft,…
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Death by Thousand Cuts: Erosion of Media Independence in Poland
Since coming into power by an overall majority in 2015, the right-wing Christian-nationalist PiS party has engaged in a systematic effort to weaken and destabilize independent media critical of the government, creating a severe concern for political and cultural media diversity in Poland.
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Abortion Debate: Sex Discrimination, Poland’s History, Catholic Church
Poland has one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, yet the government hopes to reduce healthcare provision for women even more by criminalizing abortions in cases of severe fetal abnormalities. It does so in the hopes to take advantage of lockdown measures that prevent women from protesting in the streets. Such extreme legislation is highly barbaric…
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“Thou Shall Not Be Indifferent”: What Holocaust Survivors Can Tell Us about Poland’s LGBT-Free Zones
© Bart Staszewski // Facebook Most European countries have made significant developments in LGBT+ rights: legalizing same-sex marriage and adoption, easing access to gender reassignment surgery, strengthening anti-discriminatory measures at work, schools and public institutions. Poland, however, has fallen drastically behind. The country ranks among the most restrictive European countries for LGBT+ rights, notably worsening…
Maria Slominska Fabis 