Wanda Nowicka
Wanda Nowicka | |
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Deputy Marshal of Sejm | |
| In office 8 November 2011 – 11 November 2015 | |
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| Born | 21 November 1956 Lublin, Poland |
| Political party | Labour Union (Poland) (1997–2001)[1]
Democratic Left Alliance (2001–11)[1] Palikot's Movement / Your Movement (2011–2013)[2] Democratic Left Alliance (2015–19)[1] New Left (2019–) |
| Website | https://www.wandanowicka.pl/ |
Wanda Hanna Nowicka (born 21 November 1956) is a Polish activist and politician, Member of
Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from 8 November 2011 to 11 November 2015.[5]
Born in
Ethnic Minorities.[8] She is also a founder and a Chair of the Parliamentary Group for women's rights.[9]
Protection of women's rights – International activities
Nowicka was a cofounding member of Polish Committee of NGOs – Beijing 1995 which organized active participation of Polish activists in the famous United Nations conference known as
violations of human rights, including women's rights.[16]
In 2003, Nowicka invited
extreme right nationalist groups such as the All-Poland Youth and the League of Polish Families, who seriously intimidated women in order to stop them from boarding the ship.[18]
Activity in Polish politics
Politically, Nowicka has allied herself with various parties, but has remained unaffiliated outside of briefly joining the
Union of the Left. She collected 91,000 out of 100,000 signatures required to be registered.[22]
In 2015 Nowicka ran to Sejm with the
coalition of parties.[23]
In the 2019 she unsuccessfully ran to the European Parliament in Kujawy-Pomerania district with the Spring (Wiosna) party, newly formed by Robert Biedroń.[24] She received 21,993 votes.[25]
In 2019
Ethnic Minorities.[27] She founded and has been elected as a Chair of the Parliamentary Group on Women's Rights.[28]
Education, teaching activities
She graduated in
classical philology at the University of Warsaw. In 1985–1993 she worked as a teacher of Latin, Greek and English in high schools in Warsaw. In 2007–2008, she taught at the University of Rutgers in New Jersey, USA at the Faculty of Women's Affairs and Gender Studies on Reproductive Rights Activism with Focus on Central and Eastern Europe.[29] In 2016–2017 she lectured Gender Studies at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences (University of Warsaw and Polish Academy of Science) In 2016–18 she studied bioethics at the University of Warsaw and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris
.
Private life
Daughter of Kazimierz Nowicki, former prisoner of
She declares her knowledge of classical languages (Latin, Greek) and English, Russian and French, as well as the ability to communicate in German and Italian.[29]
Decorations and distinctions
Wanda Nowicka became
University-In-Exile Award from New School for Social Research in New York,[33] in recognition of her contribution to the struggle for women's rights in Poland and internationally.[33] For active support of international cooperation and chairing the Polish-Greek parliamentary group, the Government of the Hellenic Republic awarded Wanda Nowicka the Order of Honor of the second class at the rank of Grand Commander.[34]
List of publications
- 1994 Nowicka, W. "Two Steps Back: Poland’s New Abortion Law". Journal of Women’s History 5 (3): 151–55. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- 1995 Coliver, S., and Nowicka W.,. "Poland". In The Right to Know: Human Rights and Access to Reproductive Health Information. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 268–284.
- 1996 Nowicka, W. "The effects of the anti-abortion law". EntreNous, December 1996, Copenhagen.
- 1996 Nowicka, W. "Roman Catholic fundamentalism against women’s reproductive rights in Poland". Reproductive Health Matters, 4(8):21–29.
- 1996 Nowicka, W. "Beijing '95 – A Chance That Could be Missed, in Voices of Women, Moving Forward with Dignity and Wholeness". The Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo.
- 1996 Nowicka, W. "More Restrictive in Life than on Paper". Conscience, 17(2) (Summer), Washington.
- 1997 Nowicka, W. “Ban on Abortion. Why?” and "Foundation of the Law in Ana’s Land". In Sisterhood in Eastern Europe, ed. Tanya Renne. Westview Press: Division of HarperCollins Publishers.
- 1998 Nowicka, W. "Report to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" (Situation of Women, esp. Reproductive Health and Rights). Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw.
- 1998 Nowicka, W. “Factors Affecting Women’s Health in Eastern and Central Europe with particular emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Mental, Environmental and Reproductive Health". Paper for Expert Meeting on Women and Health, Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into Health Sector, Tunis.
- 1998 Nowicka, W. “Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector". ENTRE NOUS, WHO, Copenhagen, Winter 1998, No 40-41.
- 1999 Nowicka, W. "Shadow Report on Gender Discrimination for the UN Human Rights Committee". Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw.
- 1999 Nowicka, W. "Advocating and Monitoring the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action in Poland". Development 42(1): 84–85.
- 1999 Nowicka, W. "Advocating and monitoring the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action in Poland: the benefits of NGO reporting to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights". Medical Law Journal 18(2–3):295–303.
- 2000 Nowicka, W., ed. "The Anti-abortion Law in Poland: Its Functioning, Social Effects and Behaviours Report". Warsaw, Federation for Women and Family Planning.
- 2000 Nowicka, W., and E. Zielińska. 2000. "Medical Community’s Perspectives on Abortion". In Report of the Federation 2000, 1–34. Strona główna.
- 2001 Nowicka, W. "Struggles for and against Legal Abortion in Poland". In Advocating for Abortion Access, edited by B. Klugman, and D. Budlender, 226–27. Johannesburg: Women's Health Project.
- 2001 Nowicka, W., and F. Girard. "Clear and Compelling Evidence: The Polish Tribunal on Abortion Rights". Reproductive Health Matters 10 (19): 22–30.
- 2002 Nowicka, W. "Shadow Report to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights". Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw.
- 2003 Nowicka, W. "Solidarity over Borders". Report about Women on Waves in Poland, Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw [in Polish] [Solidarność kobiet ponad granicami, Kronika wydarzeń Władysławowo 21 czerwca-4 lipca 2003].
- 2004 Nowicka, W. "Shadow Report on Gender Discrimination in the area of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights". Prepared for the UN Human Rights Committee.
- 2004 Nowicka, W. "Poland – The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Poland". In SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines, edited by Rosalind Petcheskyand Robert Sember. Publisher: Sexuality Policy Watch. pp. 167–196.
- 2007 Nowicka, W. "Prawa Reprodukcyjne w Polsce [Reproductive Rights in Poland]". in Czarna Księga Kobiet WAB, Warsaw.
- 2007 Nowicka, W, and M. Pochec. "Shadow Report on Women in Poland". Prepared for the UN Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- 2008 Nowicka, W., (ed.) "Reproductive Rights in Poland, Report", Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw.
- 2008 "The Anti-Abortion Act in Poland – The Legal and Actual State". In Reproductive Rights in Poland: The Effects of the Anti-Abortion Law in Poland, Report, Nowicka W. (ed.) 17–44. Warsaw: Federation for Women and Family Planning.
- 2011 Nowicka W., Polskie zmagania o aborcję w Drogi Równości (red B. Maciejewska, K.Kądziela, Z.Dąbrowska), Fundacja Przestrzenie Dialogu (Gdańsk 2011).
- 2011 Nowicka, W. "Sexual and Reproductive Rights and the Human Rights Agenda: Controversial and Contested". Reproductive Health Matters 19 (38): 119–28.
- 2011 Nowicka W., Odzyskać ciało, odzyskać godność w A jak hipokryzja (red. Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez), Wyd. O Matko! (Warszawa 2011).
- 2018 Nowicka, W. Naruszenie praw reprodukcyjnych jako forma tortur w Prawo i Medycyna, Nr 4/2017 pp. 148–168.
- 2019 Wanda Nowicka & Anna C. Zielinska, Entre l’idéologie et l’économie : les politiques de natalité en Europe Centrale in Mouvements des idées et des luttes (Oct. 2019) http://mouvements.info/entre-lideologie-et-leconomie-les-politiques-de-natalite-en-europe-centrale/
- 2019 Nowicka, W. Les droits des femmes à l’épreuve du Sacré en Pologne in L’Idée Libre, Revue fondée en 1911, La Loi et le Sacré (Dec. 2019), ed. Wafa Tamzini.
- 2019 Nowicka, W. Regulska J. Book Chapter “Repressive Policies and Women's Reproductive Choices in Poland: The Case of State Violence Against Women" in Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century (eds. Zaleski K., Enrile. A., Weiss E.L., and Wang X., Oxford University Press. (to be out in November)
References
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- ISBN 9780821445174.
- ^ "Federation for Women and Family Planning – Federation for Women and Family Planning". Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Komisja Mniejszości Narodowych i Etnicznych". Wanda Nowicka (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Parlamentarny Zespół Praw Kobiet". Wanda Nowicka (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995". United Nations. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "The situation of women in Poland, 1995" (PDF).
- ISBN 978-1-4742-5052-8.
- ^ "Commitments made twenty years ago have not been achieved yet". UN Women | The Beijing Platform for ActionTurns 20. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "ASTRA – ASTRA – Central and Eastern European Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights". Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-135-96315-6.
- ^ "Report" (PDF). Wanda Nowicka (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Women's solidarity across borders (Solidarność kobiet ponad granicami)" (PDF).
- ^ "A Rocky Polish Landfall For a Dutch Abortion Boat". The New York Times. 24 June 2003. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Wanda Nowicka: A jednak Palikot" (in Polish). Lewica.pl. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- Gazeta.pl. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ Gumowska, Aleksandra (20 February 2013). "Wanda Nowicka. Radykalna dyplomatka". Newsweek (in Polish). Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Wybory prezydenckie. Wanda Nowicka: Więcej kobiet w polityce to więcej demokracji". rmf24.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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- ^ Media, Wirtualna Polska (20 June 2013). "Duch wojownika – rozmowa z Tymoteuszem Nowickim, zawodnikiem sportów walki – WP SportoweFakty". sportowefakty.wp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "ASTRA NETWORK online". astra.org.pl. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ a b York, The New School 66 West 12th Street New; Ny 10011. "POLAND, EUROPE, WOMEN: Wanda Nowicka on New Forms of Political Engagement, March 12 at 6:30 pm". Transregional Center for Democratic Studies. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Tylec, Anna (27 July 2017). "Wanda Nowicka". wiadomosci.wp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 5 June 2020.
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