Magdalena Półtorak

University of Silesia in Katowice · Faculty of Law and Administration

The European Union has for many years been firmly committed to promoting gender equality in research and innovation (R&I). Despite this, the sector is still characterised by the persistence of structural barriers that prevent underrepresented groups from developing equally. To counteract this, those applying for Horizon Europe funding today must ha...

We present to you a study which is a legal commentary to the dramatic events that have been taking place on the Polish–Belarusian border since August 2021. The humanitarian crisis unfolding there, or in fact the Polish government’s response to it ,not only does it raisemany moral but also legal questions. In this publication, we attempt to answer t...

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the European Agenda on Migration from the perspective of people who, for some reason, are susceptible to harm or have found themselves in a challenging situation (i.e. are “vulnerable”), and answer the question of whether the Agenda has taken notice of this issue in any way. The analysis proceeds in five parts...

The purpose of this paper is to outline a framework of the Common European Asylum System reform taking into consideration the gender perspective as a point of reference. Migrant women are disproportionately more likely to be exposed to different forms of violence (also sexual and gender based), so it is worth examining whether their specific situat...

The article is devoted to the role that public international law can play in confronting the global problem of the migration and refugee crisis. The purpose of the paper is to bring closer the genesis, procedure of adoption and material substrate of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees, appro...

The right to marry is viewed as one of the basic human rights of an individual. Nevertheless, a change of context can lead to transformation from “right” into “violation”. The phenomenon of “forced and early marriages” (FEM) is an example of such a violation, being a result of lack of free and full consent and adequate (marriageable) age. FEM is an...

Redaktor naukowy Rocznika Aleksandra Wentkowska

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Redaktor naukowy Rocznika Jerzy Świeca

Redaktor naukowy Rocznika Jerzy Świeca