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= Krystyna Kacpura = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search

Krystyna Kacpura is a Women's Human Rights Defender, born in Poland. She is a member of the Sexual Rights Initiative, European Society for Contraception and Reproductive Rights, the Programme Council of the Congress of Polish Women, and executive director of the Federation for Women and Family Planning.

Education
Kacpura graduated from the University of Warsaw and completed her postgraduate degree at the Foreign Relations Institute.

Career
Since it was established in 1999, Kacpura has managed the ASTRA Secretariat (Central and Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights).

Activism
Kacpura is involved in activism for women's rights in Poland, including women's reproductive rights. She has been involved in protests towards the Polish government around its laws on reproductive health, including the 2016 Black Monday protest in opposition to an attempted tightening of already strict laws on abortion in Poland. In an article following this particular protest she wrote "In Warsaw our protests, involving over 30,000 people, locked the city down. I was trembling at the sight of all these women. I have worked in reproductive rights in Poland for 25 years, and we used to be happy if 200 women attended our protests".