in democracy, strengthening civil society, human rights, prevention of torture, European integration, rule of law and fighting against corruption.

[30][31] For this purpose ODF joined other EU and Ukrainian human rights NGOs to organise an international advocacy campaign under the name "#LetMyPeopleGo", with a platform for monitoring and listing the so-called "hostages of the Kremlin" launched with the Center for Civil Liberties / Euromaidan SOS at www.letmypeoplego.org.ua.

[47] As of 2019 ODF has also been campaigning against the renewal of voting rights of the Russian Federation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, for the enforcement of European sanctions against Russia and for introducing a worldwide "Magnitsky Act".

ODF also organises hearings and events with persecuted judges, prosecutors and activists[56] at the OSCE,[57] Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe[58] and European Parliament.

[65][66] In June 2020 Martin Mycielski, on behalf of ODF, initiated a follow-up appeal to the EC, signed by law professors as well as judges' and prosecutors' associations, requesting intervention with regard to the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, incl.

[71] During a protest on 20 January 2021, the chairman of the board of the Open Dialogue Foundation, Bartosz Kramek, was pepper sprayed by police officers and thrown to the ground in the snow, then detained.

[73] On 26 January 2021 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution entitled "Judges in Poland and in the Republic of Moldova must remain independent",[74] with amendments prepared by ODF.

The Foundation's involvement was criticised by the head of the Polish delegation Arkadiusz Mularczyk,[75] who - together with Ian Liddell-Grainger - filed a complaint against ODF and opposition parliamentarians with the Assembly's president.

[76] For their "dirty warfare against ODF", Mularczyk and Liddell-Grainger received a 3-month ban from speaking at the Assembly by PACE's Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs.

In February 2024 the Foundation addressed[82][83] an "Appeal for the review of politically motivated prosecutorial proceedings from 2015 to 2023 and rehabilitation of victims" to Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar, signed by 34 NGOs and 44 public figures, led by former President Lech Wałęsa.

The debate was moderated by journalists Jacek Żakowski (TOK FM) and Mariusz Jałoszewski (OKO.press), as well as lawyers Ewa Marcjoniak and Jakub Kocjan, and hosted by ODF's Martin Mycielski.

[52][53] At least since 2013 ODF has been campaigning for the reform of Interpol, focused on the abuse of its “Red Notice” system by authoritarian states – notably Russia, Turkey, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan – for the persecution of political exiles.

[108][109][110][111][112] ODF has been a subject of controversy since mid-2017,[113] when its Board's Chair Bartosz Kramek had published a Facebook article on possible civil disobedience actions[114] against the Law and Justice government in Poland.

Former Belgian prime minister and president of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt MEP commented that "Black lists against democracy activists are worthy of authoritarian regimes, not of EU Member States.

[124] The petition was signed by over 30,000 citizens and over 80 high-profile figures, including EU Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Pulitzer Prize recipient Anne Applebaum, Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, former government ministers Leszek Balcerowicz, Radosław Sikorski, Sławomir Nowak & Marcin Święcicki, the S&D Group in the European Parliament, Oscar-nominated director Agnieszka Holland, Gazeta Wyborcza editor-in-chief Adam Michnik, Newsweek Polska editor-in-chief Tomasz Lis, numerous Members of the European Parliament and Members of Parliament from Poland and Ukraine, NGOs, academics, journalists and other figures.

[128] She was next invited by Guy Verhofstadt to speak in the European Parliament on 26 September,[129] with Belgian authorities disregarding the Polish ban, again causing backlash in Poland.

[115] In the end also France, Switzerland and the UK have disregarded the ban,[113] letting Kozlovska speak on her case and the rule of law situation in Poland at the Council of Europe,[130] the United Nations in Geneva[131] and the House of Commons,[131] respectively.

On 4 March 2019 Kozlovska received a 5-year residence permit in Belgium,[123] which, according to EU law (Article 25 of the Schengen acquis)[132] forces Poland to withdraw the SIS ban.

[123][113] In its ruling of 16 April the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw revoked the decision to include Kozlovska in SIS, claiming the secret documents on which it was based were "too general" and "failed to show how [she] poses a risk to nationality security".

This information has supposedly surfaced following the change of power in Moldova and its aftermath, resulting in the fall of the Vladimir Plahotniuc-led regime and the election of Maia Sandu to the post of Prime Minister.

[139] During a court hearing the same month, former Catholic priest Jacek Międlar, accused of inciting hate, called for the banning of the Open Dialogue Foundation, among others.

Prominent Polish governing coalition politicians like Ryszard Czarnecki and Patryk Jaki used these publications during their EP electoral campaign to attack the opposition, especially MEP Róża Thun, who had advocated for Lyudmyla Kozlovska following her expulsion.

The Polish Chancellery of the Prime Minister responded to those allegations claiming that "the details of actions taken by special services are not revealed to the public for legal reasons".

The topic has reportedly been discussed by Polish foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz and his Moldovan counterpart Tudor Ulianovschi at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Milan in December 2018.

[136] ODF has received criticism from far-right French MEP Nicolas Bay[153] for one of the individual cases of human rights abuses that it had advocated for (together with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch) – the case of Mukhtar Ablyazov, founder of the opposition political party Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan and opponent of Kazakhstan's first President Nursultan Nazarbayev.