Empowering Children Foundation is a non-governmental organisation working towards protecting children from abuse and providing help for abused children, their families and their caregivers. The facilities run by the Foundation offer psychological, medical, and legal help to victims of abuse and their caregivers. Empowering Children Foundation acts for the improvement of the situation of children participating in legal procedures as witnesses.
Contact: Ms. Maria Keller – Hamela
Phone: +48 22 616 02 68
Address: Empowering Children Foundation, ul. Mazowiecka, 12/2500-048 Warsaw, Poland
Email: maria.keller-hamela@fdds.pl
Website: http://www.fdds.pl
Poland ratified the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse in 2015.
Poland is a source, transit and destination country for children subjected to trafficking for sexual purposes. Children from Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine are subjected to trafficking in Poland, while Polish children are trafficked within the country’s borders and in other European countries.
In 2015, the Polish government allocated 135,000 zloty for the implementation of tasks related to the 2013-2015 national action plan for combating trafficking in persons. The government also drafted and began the implementation of the 2016-2018 anti-trafficking action plan.
During 2015, the government provided trafficking-specific training to law enforcement authorities, judges, prosecutors, the police and border guards. In June 2015, the police established provincial interagency anti-trafficking teams in all 16 regions of the country to improve cooperation at the regional level.
Identification of child victims of trafficking remains a challenge, there is still a low rate of final convictions of trafficking perpetrators, most convicted traffickers received suspended sentences and there was no specialised care available for child victims of trafficking.
Year: February 2024
Year: 2024
Year: 2023
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The age of sexual consent is 15 years, for both girls and boys. The national legislation does not provide for a close-in-age exemption.
Analysis of country legislation on age of sexual consent, 2024
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Active and passive extraterritoriality is provided for all SEC related offences under articles 109 and 110 of the Criminal Code with regards to Polish citizens (not habitual residents) with the conditions that the offence committed abroad is punished with at least two years of imprisonment under Polish law, constitute a crime in the place of commitment and the offender is located in Poland.
SEC related offences can be considered extraditable offences if they fulfil the double criminality principle (article 604.1.2 of the Criminal Procedure Code) and Polish citizens cannot be extradited. Double criminality is required both for extraterritoriality and extradition.
SEC offences are referred to as extraditable under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) framework within the EU without requiring double criminality if the act is punishable by a maximum period of at least three years of imprisonment in the requesting State.
Polish Criminal Code, Polish Criminal Procedure Code, 1997, 1997
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