Women’s Rights Activists Under Attack in Poland

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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS | FEBRUARY 7, 2019 Supporting Women’s Rights in Poland Could End Your Career

Photo © Private Ewa Wnorowska has dedicated her life to helping students at a school for children with disabilities in Poland. In 2016, she took a photograph with eleven other colleagues, all wearing black, to show solidarity with women’s rights protests taking place in their country. That one simple photograph has been splashed over Polish newspapers and social media. Some of the women in it have been ostracized by colleagues, seen their careers suffer, and even become ill because of the strain they are under. They are suffering the now all-too common consequences of standing up for women’s rights in Poland. And more than two years after the protests began, the rights of women in Poland are still under attack. READ MORE »

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