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The aim of the UNGASS was to have a broad, open debate with all UN member states involved and that has not happened.

Thousands of people took part in street demonstrations across Poland on Sunday to protest a legislative project completely banning abortions.

Magdalena Mikulak argues that Poland’s Law and Justice government’s vision of change has left little room for alternative views and values, noting that there are now legitimate concerns about the effects of these reforms on Polish society and women in particular.

Katha Pollitt on defending Polish women’s right to choose.

Sławomir Sierakowski on the illiberal developments that have recently taken place in Poland.

Europe has a duty to act on Jarosław Kaczyński and his party.

Unions are not the only means of representing workers’ interests. Dawid Krawczyk reports on workers’ self-organization in New York’s Chinese community.

A new constitutional amendment in Hungary will give excessive powers to the government.

Why is the Polish constitutional crisis a threat to Europe?

It is still the West that provides us with the model of institution as well as law and order – the European Court is not the one that should deal with the problem of secret prisons, it’s the Polish judiciary that should. Jakub Dymek in conversation with Józef Pinior.