Dyskryminacja ze względu na religię w działalności polskiego ombudsmana

When the Ombudsman Office (RPO) was established in 1987 and it was decreed to strengthen socialist rule of law and protect the rights and freedoms of citizens enshrined in the Constitution and other legal acts, Poland for years has been a part of international pacts guaranteeing civil rights including freedom of conscience and religion. The declarative nature of international obligations, as well as actual restrictions on citizens' rights, have effectively neutralized the activities of the Ombudsman appointed to monitor, disclose and prevent human rights violations. After 1989, when Poland, leaving the communist block, decided to join democratic states, the position of Ombudsman strengthened. His competences were expanded, the Office gained constitutional rank, and was able to carry out its mission more effectively in new political circumstances. This article is devoted to the Ombudsman's statements on matters of freedom of religion. Recapitulation of RPO activity in this area is important and current. The issue of the primacy of human rights and freedoms, including the religious freedoms of the individual marking the limit of state law, as in the early 1990s, is now the subject of political and ideological disputes - also about the ideological shape of the Ombudsman Office and the sense of its presence on the public scene.