In the 22nd of September 2015 Ms. Sylwia Spurek, Doctor of Law, legal counsel and legislator has been appointed Deputy Human Rights Commissioner for Equal Treatment. She is co-founder of the Foundation Governance Clinic. Since 1999 involved in the protection of human rights. Fellow of the Legal Fellowship Program and participant of the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic (City University of New York, 2000). Between 2002 and 2005 lawyer in the Secretariat of the Government Plenipotentiary For Equal Status of Men and Women. Participated in preparing the first act on the prevention of domestic violence. Until 2014 counsel at the Office of the Prime Minister (Legal Department), later serving as deputy head of the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment (until June 2015). Between 2008-2015 member of the Unit for European Court of Human Rights issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and between 2010 and 2012 representative of the Office of the Prime Minister at the Committee of the Protection of Rights. University lecturer of Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw and post-graduate studies of Gender Mainstreaming at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Certified expert in helping victims of domestic violence (National Emergency Line for the Victims of Domestic Violence “Blue Line”). Member of the Polish Society of Anti-Discrimination Law and the Polish Legislative Society. Author of numerous publications on domestic violence, as well as equal treatment and discrimination issues. Specializes in lawmaking, lobbing and advocacy and access to public information."

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