Documents

Family reunification of Somali refugees in Hungary

2012. 02. 29.

In recent years, Somali refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection who have been granted protection in Hungary have faced insurmountable difficulties when trying to be reunited with their family members ...

Access to protection jeopardised

2012. 02. 16.

Information note on the treatment of Dublin returnees in Hungary

Fleeing Homophobia – LGBT asylum applications

2011. 12. 01.

Each year hundreds of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers arrive to Member States of the EU. European countries regularly reject the asylum applications of LGBTI asylum ...

Serbia as a Safe Third Country: A Wrong Presumption

2011. 09. 23.

Hungary refuses to examine on the merits asylum claims of asylum-seekers arriving in Hungary through Serbia, based on the wrong presumption that Serbia is able and willing to provide protection ...

Statelessness in Hungary (2010)

2011. 06. 21.

Having a nationality is like the air to breathe. One takes it for granted and only realises its importance when it is missing. Currently, there are at least 12 million ...

Best practices of voluntary return – Guidelines (2010)

2011. 06. 20.

In the framework of its 2010 project entitled “Return in a lawful and humane manner” the Hungarian Helsinki Committee conducted a research on best practices of voluntary return and reintegration of failed ...

Foreigners in Hungary – a Guide for Journalists (2011)

2011. 06. 20.

Is it true that most immigrants are Chinese in Hungary? Is it correct to talk about “economic refugees”? Foreigners are more likely to commit criminal acts than Hungarians, aren’t they? ...

“Individualised” risk of torture in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

2011. 06. 19.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee wrote a policy paper that aims to clarify how the European Court of Human Rights, in its evolving jurisprudence, interprets the requirement of individualisation when defining ...

Hungarian acts in English

2011. 06. 18.

Act LXXX of 2007 on Asylum Act I of 2007 on the Admission and Residence of Persons with the Right of Free Movement and Residence Act II of 2007 on ...

Expulsion and Human Rights

2011. 06. 17.

“Expulsion and Human Rights” is a brief guidance document intended primarily for judges on how to apply the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment in expulsion and ...