Expertise
- Democracy
- Food and Agriculture
- Gender
- Human Rights
Wilson Center Projects
Cyber-violence against women - a new face of an old problem. A new challenge for the protection of human rights and the quality of democracy
Full Biography
Attorney-at-law, human rights defender, former Deputy Human Rights Commissioner of Poland. Law and public policy expert in the field of equal treatment and counteracting violence against women and gender-based violence (domestic violence and cyberviolence against women in particular). Experience in holding the highest public and political functions. Independent researcher, academic, author of many publications in the area of violence against women. Main academic interests concern women's human rights, including violence against women, domestic violence and cyberviolence in particular. Advocate for LGBTQIA human rights. Climate and animal rights activist, so-called farmed animals in particular. Co-founder of think-tanks Green REV Institute and European FEM Institute. The first vegan MEP (2019-2024) from Eastern and Central Europe.
Major Publications
- Counteracting Domestic Violence. The Commentary, Wolters Kluwer Publishing House, Warsaw 2023 (6th edition)
- Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. The Commentary (co-author), Wolters Kluwer Publishing House, Warsaw 2016
- An analysis of the Victims’ Rights Directive from a gender perspective, European Institute for Gender Equality, Vilnius, Lithuania 2016