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HHC briefing for CPT periodic visit to Hungary

2013. 04. 24.

HHC met members of the CPT delegation to Hungary in April 2013.

ECJ landmark ruling on automatic refugee status for Palestinians from Syria

2013. 02. 11.

Interview with HHC attorney Gábor Győző, who pleaded the El Kott case at the CJEU, in the ECRE weekly newsletter.

Global Campaign to End the Immigration Detention of Children

2012. 03. 22.

Every day, around the world, tens of thousands of children, many of them unaccompanied minors, are deprived of their freedom and are locked up simply because they do not hold ...

Human rights NGOs call on Hungarian government to regularly consult civil society to effectively implement UN Human Rights Council UPR recommendations

2011. 09. 22.

On 21/09/2011, human rights NGOs met with delegates of the Hungarian Government to discuss future steps of implementing the recommendations accepted by the government in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

NGOs inform the press on Hungary’s human rights performance in advance of UPR review

2011. 05. 06.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a new and unique human rights mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council aiming at improving the human rights situation in each of ...

Briefing for Budapest-based embassies on Hungary’s human rights performance in advance of UPR review

2011. 04. 28.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee organized a meeting for the embassies of Austria,  Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, The Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and the United States. The HHC presented the list of ...

Shadow reports on Hungary’s human rights performance

2010. 11. 18.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves the review of the human rights record of all 192 UN Member States once every four years. It was ...

UN Human Rights Committee finds numerous shortcomings after periodic review

2010. 10. 30.

The UN Human Rights Committee on its 100th session assessed Hungary’s implementation  of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee helped the Committee’s work by ...

NGO Shadow Report for the UN Human Rights Committee

2010. 09. 22.

The HHC has prepared a shadow report for the 100th session of the UN Human Rights Committee on the human rights situation in Hungary.