1. Wanda Hanna Nowicka was born on 21 November 1956 and is a Polish social activist and politician, member of the Sejm since 2019 and previously between 2011 and 2015.
17 Facts About Wanda Nowicka
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Wanda Nowicka served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm from 8 November 2011 to 11 November 2015.
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In 1990, Nowicka co-founded Neutrum, the Association for State Neutrality, an organization focused on the separation of church and state in Polish public life.
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Wanda Nowicka was one of the founders of the Federation for Women and Family Planning in 1991, a non-governmental organization which is the alliance of Neutrum and four other organizations.
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Wanda Nowicka led the federation as its president for 20 years, from 1991 until 2011 when she resigned having got elected to Sejm.
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Wanda Nowicka is a founder and a Chair of the Parliamentary Group for women's rights.
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Wanda Nowicka graduated in classical philology at the University of Warsaw.
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Politically, Wanda Nowicka has allied herself with various parties, but has remained unaffiliated outside of briefly joining the Solidarity movement in 1980 and 1981.
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Wanda Nowicka's candidacy was supported by four political parties: the Polish Left, the Social Democracy of Poland, Polish Socialist Party and Union of the Left.
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Wanda Nowicka collected 91,000 out of 100,000 signatures required to be registered.
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In 2015 Wanda Nowicka ran to Sejm with the United Left coalition in Masovian district.
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Wanda Nowicka founded and has been elected as a Chair of the Parliamentary Group on Women's Rights.
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In 1999 Wanda Nowicka co-founded and was the first coordinator of ASTRA.
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Wanda Nowicka wrote numerous reports to the UN and the European Union on violations of human rights, including women's rights.
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Wanda Nowicka's stepfather was Kazimierz Albin, the former prisoner of Auschwitz.
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Wanda Nowicka declares her knowledge of classical languages and English, Russian and French, as well as the ability to communicate in German and Italian.
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Wanda Nowicka became Honorary Citizen of Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA in 1992.