Małgorzata Tarasiewicz is a Polish activist, politician, and political scientist. She was a coordinator of the Polish section of

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...

, where she was involved with efforts to establish the

International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an intergovernmental organization and International court, international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute ...

. Tarasiewicz has been involved in the leadership of the Polish Green Party, and has run for public office as an independent.

Career

During the late 1980s, Tarasiewicz was an activist with the Freedom and Peace Movement ( pl), and worked as a labour activist. She pursued university studies in

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

, graduating in 1987 with a degree in political science and English. From 1989 to 1991, she was the president of the women's section of the Polish trade union

Solidarity Solidarity or solidarism is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. True solidarity means moving beyond individual identities and single issue politics ...

. From 1991 to 1995, she was coordinator of the Polish branch of Amnesty International. She then became the head of the Network of East-West Women ( pl), an organization which seeks to foster coordination on feminist issues between the post-Soviet countries of Eastern and Central Europe and activists in Western Europe and the United States. From 1997 to 1999, she was involved in efforts by Amnesty International to help establish the International Criminal Court. From 2003 to 2005, Tarasiewicz was a member of the national council of the Polish Green Party. In the local government elections in 2014, Tarasiewicz was an independent candidate to be the mayor of

Sopot Sopot (; or ) is a seaside resort city in Pomerelia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. It is located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomerania Province and has the City with powiat ri ...

, placing 4th. In the 2018 elections, she ran again with the

Free and Solidary Free and Solidary ( Polish: ''Wolni i Solidarni'', WiS) was a small political party in Poland. Founder Kornel Morawiecki, the Senior Marshal of the Sejm, led the party until his death in 2019. The party was plagued with poor electoral perfo ...

party, again placing 4th. Tarasiewicz was featured in the 2011 play ''Sprawa operacyjnego rozpoznania''. In 2013, she was awarded the

Cross of Freedom and Solidarity The Cross of Freedom and Solidarity (''Krzyż Wolności i Solidarności'') was established on 5 August 2010, to honor members of the democratic opposition in Poland who between the years 1956 and 1989 were killed, seriously wounded or injured, arr ...

. In 2020, she received the Commander's Cross of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta (, ) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on alien (law), foreigners for outstanding achievements in ...

Selected awards

, Government of Poland (2013) * Commander's Cross of the

, Government of Poland (2020)

References

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