Category: Our reports and analyses

The Detention of Asylum Seekers in Hungary: Exploring the Impact of Three Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

The Eötvös Károly Institute, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union criticize the abolishing of the upper age limit of 70 years in case of elected Constitutional Court judges, including current serving judges.

Opinion of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and the Eötvös Károly Institute

Legal background material and the law in English

Briefing paper of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (October 2013) Addititonal information of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the unlimited … Read more

ECRE Information Note on the Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection

Asylum seekers in Europe are often faced with EU rules that hinder their ability to seek asylum in an EU country
where they would feel most protected. This is according to a new JRS Europe report, Protection Interrupted, based on
interviews with 257 asylum seekers and migrants in nine EU countries.

The strategy, which is in the making now, will cover the period between 2014-2020 related to the use of the EU’s new Refugee and Migration Fund.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has prepared an information note in order to provide a brief overview about the fundamental asylum-related legal amendments entering into force on 1 July 2013 in Hungary.

Border monitoring activities have been carried out at three extra-Schengen border sections in Hungary since 2006 under a tripartite cooperation agreement between the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the UNHCR Regional Representation and the National Police Headquarters.

The Hungarian government provided detailed comments on the so-called Tavares Report regarding the situation of fundamental rights in Hungary, which will soon be discussed by Members of the European Parliament. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), and the Standards (Mérték) Media Monitor responded to the government’s inaccurate and unfounded comments in an analysis submitted to the factions of the European Parliament.

UNHCR report on EU state practices of credibility assessment in asylum claims (publication realised in the framework of the CREDO project)

Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures – a Multidisciplinary Training Manual
(A publication of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee as part of the CREDO project)

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

A comparative report came out analyzing the practice of 11 Member States in applying the Dublin Regulation.

Analyses and summaries in English on the problems arising in connection with the Fourth Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary in terms of the rule of law and the protection of human rights.

As part of the CREDO project, the International Association of Refugee Law Judges published a pioneering guidance document designed for judges and all other relevant decision-makers active in the field of asylum.

Three Hungarian NGOs, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Eötvös Károly Institute and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union addressed the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and the European Commission Vice-President, Commissioner in Charge of Justice, Human Rights and Citizenship in order to raise their attention to the planned Fourth Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary, threatening the rule of law. The NGOs asked the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to request the Venice Commission to perform an analysis of the proposed amendments.

As of 1st January 2013 the latest modiciations of the Hungarian Asylum Act entered into force.

The UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) is in the process of preparing a General Comment on Article 9 (Liberty and Security of Person) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Upon the invitation … Read more