The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published today the report on its fourth periodic visit to Hungary in March/April 2009, together with … Read more
The results of the Dubliners project (link to the project) were presented at the final conference in Rome. Officials from Sweden, Hungary and Italy, and representatives of partner NGOs highlighted the difficulties in the application of the Dublin regulation.
A series of articles on the phenomenon of statelessness (written by Noémi Ivicsics, intern at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee) has been published on the Hungarian world news and foreign policy website, Kitekintő.
In December 2008, the HHC set up anti-discrimination law clinics at two Hungarian law schools (ELTE University of Budapest and the University of Miskolc) to sensitize law students to this special legal field and provide them with … Read more
The HHC and the Legal Defense Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities issued a statement and a detailed legal analysis as to what kind of consequences it has according to the current legal provisions if … Read more
Publisher: Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2008
ISBN: 978-963-87757-7-1
The Report on Measures to Combat Discrimination Country Report 2007 was drafted for the European Network of Legal Experts in the non-discrimination field, managed by Human European Consultancy and the Migration Policy Group, supported for under the European … Read more
On 23 June 2009, the HHC, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the Chance for Children Foundation and the Legal Defense Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities filed a criminal report against T. P., a well-known … Read more
In late 2008 and early 2009 the HHC carried out research into possible ways of assessing the quality of ex officio defense through studying actual case files. In the research, 150 already closed criminal cases … Read more
After five decades of neglect, Europe is urged to respect its international obligations and provide stateless persons with a meaningful protection status.
Authors: András Kádár, Júlia Körner, Zsófia Moldova, Balázs Tóth
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2008
ISBN: 978-963-88228-1-9
Report on the monitoring experience at airports in Amsterdam, Budapest, Madrid, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2008
ISBN: 978 963 86959 9 4
Author: Ildikó Ritter
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2008
ISBN: 978-963-87757-2-6
Comments of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee: The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s comments to the Third Report on Hungary by ECRI (26 March 2008) The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s comments regarding the developments following the Second Report on Hungary by ECRI … Read more
Author: Gábor Gyulai
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2007
ISBN: 978-963-87757-0-2
Authors: András Kádár, Balázs Tóth, István Vavró
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2007
ISBN: 978 963 86959 6 3
Author: Júlia Mink
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2007
Author: Gábor Gyulai
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2007
Documents related to the Fourth Periodic Report of Hungary
The UN Independent Expert on minority issues (IEMI), Ms Gay McDougall paid a visit to Hungary in late June 2006. The HHC met with the Independent Expert and presented a briefing paper on issues related … Read more