Each year hundreds of thousands leave their home due to wars, hunger, torture and persecution globally. In Europe, although often perceived as a safe region, asylum-seekers are often met by refusal, detention and expulsion.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee works towards providing effective assistance to those fleeing to Hungary.
The project encourages and provides practical tools to support youth with refugee background, migrant and Hungarian youth to become active and conscious members of their communities and Hungarian society; to meet with and create channels for … Read more
Although Hungarian law guarantees state-funded legal aid for asylum seekers in need, significant barriers limit access, particularly for people in detention. Our new brief examines the gap between legal entitlement and effective access and sets out the changes needed to make legal aid meaningful in practice.
The Caring to Include trauma-informed care toolkit helps refugee-support organisations apply informed-trauma principles in everyday services and across their organisations. The toolkit combines practical guidance for staff and volunteers with tools for organisations to assess their current practice and identify priorities for improvement.
Do you want to:
– get to know how democratic power functions at the local level and become an active member of your community?
– be a part of a diverse, young team of refugees, migrants and Hungarians?
– explore human rights issues faced by refugees in Budapest?
– learn about interactive drama methods and create an interactive theatre play together?
If yes, apply to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s Human Rights Learning Lab by 6 September!
If you are a non-EU family member of a Hungarian or another EEA national and live in Hungary with a permanent residence card issued between 3 August 2016 and 2 August 2021, an important deadline is approaching. Your card will automatically become invalid on 3 August 2026, so you must apply to the National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing for a new residence document by 27 July at the latest.
The “Human Rights Defenders of the Future” course brings Hungarian and refugee youth together to explore active citizenship
The AIDA report presents a comprehensive overview of the asylum system in Hungary in 2025.
PICUM’s report on the criminalization of solidarity in the EU in 2025.
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-and-half year. It was created by the UN General … Read more
2025 report on pushbacks in Europe
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child guarantees the fundamental rights to be enjoyed by every child. The Hungarian Child Rights Coalition prepares an alternative report on the implementation of the Convention, which draws on the professional experience of its member organizations and covers developments over the past five years. This year, as a new member of the Coalition, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee is also contributing to the preparation of the report.
Do you want to:
– get to know how democratic power functions at different levels?
– learn about social participation in Hungary and become an active citizen?
– be a part of a diverse, young team of refugees, migrants and Hungarians?
– learn and have fun with interactive educational methods?
If yes, apply to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s Human Rights Course by 29 March!
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee is asking Hungary’s highest court (Kúria) to review court rulings that rejected lawsuits filed on behalf of refugee families from Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia, western Ukraine) seeking continued access to state-funded accommodation. According to the human rights organisation, the courts’ interpretation of the law is flawed and inconsistent with the protections guaranteed under the Temporary Protection Directive.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee prepared an information leaflet for Iranian nationals currently in Hungary.
The project seeks to provide high-quality, free-of-charge legal assistance and representation to asylum-seekers and other persons of concern to UNHCR in Hungary, as well as to ensure through strategic litigation activities that the right to international protection … Read more
The implementation of information provision, legal assistance and representation, monitoring, advocacy, strategic litigation and capacity-building activities in Hungary for the benefit of people fleeing Ukraine. Project duration: 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2027 The … Read more
The project encourages and provides practical tools to help youth with refugee background, migrant and Hungarian youth to become active and conscious members of their communities and Hungarian society; and to advocate for their and … Read more
The HHC’s shadow reports and its suggestions for questions to be included in the List of Issues for the UN Human Rights Committee
The “Human Rights Defenders of the Future” the youth group of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, held a Forum Theatre performance on 10 December, on World Human Rights Day. The interactive performance portrayed the problems refugees and foreigners face living in Hungary.
A new handbook is published to support civil society in building strong communities of practice and the first ‘Caring to Include’ toolkit can be accessed that is developed to strengthen the well-being of staff and volunteers who support refugees and people seeking protection.