2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland
The 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland, commonly called the Women's Strike (Polish: Strajk Kobiet), were anti-government demonstrations and protests in Poland that began on 22 October 2020, in reaction to a ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, mainly consisting of judges who were appointed by the ruling Law and Justice (Polish: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) dominated United Right, which tightened the law on abortion in Poland. The ruling made almost all cases of abortion illegal, including those cases in which the foetus had a severe and permanent disability, or an incurable and life-threatening disease. All-Poland Women's Strike was charged by the authorities for having illegally organised the protests.
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| Women's Strike (Polish: Strajk Kobiet) Part of the Polish constitutional crisis | |||
Clockwise starting from top: protest in Kraków, protest in Bielsko-Biała, protest symbol, protest in Miodowa, protest in Wrocław. | |||
| Date | 22 October 2020 – 27 January 2021 | ||
| Location | Poland | ||
| Caused by | The Constitutional Tribunal's decision finding abortion in cases of "disability or incurable illness" to be unconstitutional in the country | ||
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| Methods | Demonstrations, marches, graffiti, leaflet drop, street blockades, street dance protests, strike, vandalism | ||
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On the evening of 22 October 2020, a wave of mass protests in opposition to the ruling commenced. In the biggest protest in the country since the end of the People's Republic during the revolutions of 1989, protesters opposed the interference of the Roman Catholic Church in public matters, and opposed the domination of all three branches of government by the ruling coalition.