Wanda Hanna Nowicka (born 21 November 1956) is a Polish activist and politician, Member of

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during 7th (2011–2015) and 9th terms (2019–2023). She served as the

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from 8 November 2011 to 11 November 2015. Born in

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, she attended the

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, graduating with a degree in

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, and worked as a teacher of

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and

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from 1985 to 1993. In 1990, Nowicka co-founded Neutrum, the Association for State Neutrality, an organization focused on the separation of church and state in Polish public life. She was also one of the founders of the Federation for Women and Family Planning in 1991, a

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which is the alliance of Neutrum and four other organizations. She led the federation as its president for 20 years, from 1991 until 2011 when she resigned having got elected to

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. In the 9th term of

she is a

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of the Parliamentary Committee on National and

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. She is also a founder and a Chair of the Parliamentary Group for

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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 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (FWCW). The activities included the presentation of NGOs' report on the situation of women in

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. At this UN conference Nowicka made a well-known ''Statement of Non-Region'' on behalf of women from

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. In 1999 Nowicka co-founded and was the first coordinator of ASTRA (Central and Eastern European Women's Network for

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). From 1995 to 2002 she served as an expert of the

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and a member of its advisory body called Gender Advisory Panel. Wanda Nowicka has been also a member of the Congress of Polish Women and board member of the association Congress of Women which is the operational body of this movement. She spoke on

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on numerous occasions at international forums ( UN, EU,

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). She wrote numerous reports to the UN and the

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, including

. In 2003, Nowicka invited

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. Their ship, the ''Langenort'', arrived for two weeks to

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at the Polish coast to organize together with Polish women's activists, actions to rise awaress about repressiveness of the anti-abortion law in Poland and to provide early

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in extraterritorial waters. These actions were violently attacked by

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groups such as the All-Poland Youth and the

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, who seriously intimidated women in order to stop them from boarding the ship.

Activity in Polish politics

Politically, Nowicka has allied herself with various parties, but has remained unaffiliated outside of briefly joining the

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movement in 1980 and 1981. After 1989, she became involved in

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, cooperating with

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groups, but remaining independent. Several times she unsuccessfully stood in various parliamentary elections. In 1991, she ran for the

from the list of Labour Solidarity, in 1997 she ran for Senator's seat on behalf of the Labour Union with 190,000 votes. In 1998–2002, she was elected to the first

Masovian Regional Assembly The Masovian Voivodeship Sejmik ( pl, Sejmik Województwa Mazowieckiego) is the Voivodeship sejmik, regional legislature of the Voivodeships of Poland, Voivodeship of Masovian Voivodeship, Masovia in Poland. It is a Unicameralism, unicameral parli ...

with SLD on the recommendation of the

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(PPS). In the 2011 parliamentary elections, she allied herself with

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, and she won a parliamentary seat, gaining 7065 votes. On 8 November 2011 she was elected

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of the

for the 7th term. In February 2013 she split with the

and remained independent member of the

till the end term. She ran with the

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coalition to the

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in 2014 in

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district, and she received 7479 votes (second result), however,

failed to gain any seats in the elections. On 21 February 2015 she announced her participation in the presidential election on behalf of the Polish Labour Party. Her candidacy was also supported by four political parties: the

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, the

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and Union of the Left. She collected 91,000 out of 100,000 signatures required to be registered. In 2015 Nowicka ran to Sejm with the United Left coalition in Masovian district. She received 20,503 votes, which did not qualify her for a seat, because the United Left did not pass the 8% threshold required for the coalition of parties. In the 2019 she unsuccessfully ran to the

in Kujawy-Pomerania district with the Spring (Wiosna) party, newly formed by

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. She received 21,993 votes. In 2019

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, running from the first place on the list of the Left alliance in

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(29th district), she received 25,767 votes, achieving a third place in the constituency and obtaining a seat as a 9th-term MP. In the Sejm, she was elected

of the Committee on National and

. She founded and has been elected as a Chair of the

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Education, teaching activities

She graduated in

at the

. In 1985–1993 she worked as a teacher of

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and

in high schools in

. In 2007–2008, she taught at the

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at the Faculty of Women's Affairs and

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on Reproductive Rights Activism with Focus on

. In 2016–2017 she lectured

at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences (

and

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) In 2016–18 she studied

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at the

and

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at the

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Private life

Daughter of Kazimierz Nowicki, former prisoner of German Nazi concentration camps

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and

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, and Irena Witkowska. Her stepfather was Kazimierz Albin, the former prisoner of

. Her husband was Światoslaw Florian Nowicki, with whom she has three sons: Florian, Michał and Tymoteusz. Florian, a doctor of philosophy, was a politician of the Polish Labour Party, Michał, historian, as a student was a well-known

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activist, and Tymoteusz, kick-boxer won the world cup in

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twice. She declares her knowledge of classical languages (

) and

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and

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, as well as the ability to communicate in

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and

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Decorations and distinctions

Wanda Nowicka became

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, South Carolina, USA in 1992. In 1994 she was a laureate of the Polish edition of the Woman of Europe competition. In 2000, she received the Rainbow Laurel award. In 2005, she received a £100,000 award from the Sigrid Rausing Foundation for the ASTRA network for outstanding leadership (the award was used to make the film ''Breaking Silence''). In 2008, she won the University-In-Exile Award from New School for Social Research in New York, in recognition of her contribution to the struggle for

and internationally. 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.

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
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* 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

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olidarność 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 Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky and Robert Sember. Publisher: Sexuality Policy Watch. pp. 167–196. * 2007 Nowicka, W. "Prawa Reprodukcyjne w Polsce eproductive 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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