Pursuant to the resolution of the National Council of Legal Advisers as of 14 March 2014, there was established the Commission on Human Rights, as a standing committee of the National Council of Legal Advisers, composed of 9 persons.

Its main objectives are as follows:

• to act on behalf of legal counsels in the area of promoting universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;

• to respond to the violations of human rights; to organize media campaigns to publicize the examples of human rights and freedoms violation as well as to prepare draft positions of government bodies concerning the latter violations;

• to collaborate with the national and international governmental institutions and NGOs operating in the field of human rights;

• to promote knowledge about the effective protection of the rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights and to monitor the case law of the European Court of Human Rights as well as to monitor the status of implementing its judgments and decisions;

• to carry out other activities that contribute to the popularisation of knowledge and awareness of human rights and fundamental freedoms as well as their protection.

The newly established body is composed of the following members:

- Jolanta Budzowska – the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Kraków

- Marcin Górski – the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Łódź

- Bartłomiej Latos - the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Wrocław

- Aldona Kaniewska - the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warszawa

- Paweł Szcześniewski - the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Szczecin

- Krzysztof Urbaniak - the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Poznań

- Marcin Piotr Wojciechowskiego - the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Białystok

- Anna Zaleska - the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Katowice

Att. Magdalena Witkowska, a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Gdańsk, became the Chairperson of the new Commission of the National Council of Legal Advisers.