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Interwar and Contemporary Poland. A Comparison of the Protection of Minority Rights in the Second and in the Third Polish Republics
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Interwar and Contemporary Poland. A Comparison of the Protection of Minority Rights in the Second and in the Third Polish Republics

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  • Katarzyna Witkowska-Chrzczonowicz Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5165-1960

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https://doi.org/10.12775/CLR.2021.018

Keywords

protection , minorities , March Constitution , national legislation , international law

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the problem of the protection of minority rights in Poland in the interwar period in comparison with the contemporary situation. On the one hand, before the Second World War Poland was a very heterogeneous country, inhabited for generations by multiple and internally diverse religious, national, ethnic, or linguistic minorities. On the other hand, contemporary Poland is a country in which national and ethnic minorities constitute only a few percent of the population, and the proportion of such minorities in Poland compared to other European countries is one of the lowest in Europe. The duties of the Polish authorities towards national minorities were determined by internal legal acts: decrees of the Chief of State, and above all the March Constitution and national law, as well as many international legal acts, for instance such as the so-called Little Treaty of Versailles. The second part of the paper discusses the contemporary situation of the minorities in Poland, for instance the situation of the national and ethnic minorities and the situation of sexual minorities.

Author Biography

Katarzyna Witkowska-Chrzczonowicz, Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Professor at the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

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2021-12-22

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WITKOWSKA-CHRZCZONOWICZ, Katarzyna. Interwar and Contemporary Poland. A Comparison of the Protection of Minority Rights in the Second and in the Third Polish Republics. Comparative Law Review. Online. 22 December 2021. Vol. 27, pp. 407-422. [Accessed 4 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/CLR.2021.018.
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