An appeals court in Poland says that it will rule next month in the case of a women’s rights activist convicted in 2023 of providing another woman with abortion pills.

Monica Costa Riba, Amnesty International's Women's Rights Senior Campaigner, condemned on Thursday the verdict in the case of Justyna Vydrinska, a human rights activist convicted of helping a woman ...

Poland is debating changes to its near-total abortion ban on Thursday, re-opening one of the country’s thorniest social and political debates in an effort to overhaul some of the strictest laws ...

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Parliamentary work on relaxing Poland's restrictive abortion laws will resume only after the presidential election scheduled for May, a senior ...

She said she has low expectations for dramatic changes to Poland’s abortion policies before the 2025 presidential election, when Duda’s term is up. “As an activist, I’m happy to see ...

Supporters of women's rights activist Justyna Wydrzynska before a Warsaw court where Wydrzynska's appeal was being heard of a 2023 conviction for providing abortion pills to another woman, before the ...

Thousands of people have blocked roads across Poland on the fifth consecutive day of protests against a court's near-total ban on abortion. In the capital Warsaw, protesters blocked the main ...

Thousands of people have taken to streets across Poland against plans to further tighten the abortion laws, already among Europe's strictest. A bill in parliament seeks to ban abortions in cases ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Poland’s parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country’s strict ...

The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.

The Geneva declaration was a first Trump-term initiative sponsored by six countries — the United States, Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia and Uganda — that sought to curb global access and support ...