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 Hungarian Helsinki Committee has been providing legal information and direct legal assistance in protection-related matters to those having to flee due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We regularly monitor reception facilities where Ukrainian refugees are accommodated throughout Hungary. We summarize our findings in short, thematic reports.
This leaflet has useful information for you if you don’t have Ukrainian nationality, but you lived in Ukraine and you had to leave Ukraine because of the war.
We have gathered recurring questions that refugees from Ukraine have asked our staff and that we have not covered in our information leaflet. The document can be downloaded and distributed in English, Ukrainian and Russian.
Дата останнього редагування: 17. 07. 2024. Мы собрали часто задаваемые вопросы, которые беженцы из Украины задают нашим коллегам, и которые мы не затронули в другой нашей информации. Документ доступен на английском, украинском и русском … Read more
Дата останнього редагування: 12.04.2023.
Останнє оновлення: 17 липня 2024 р. Цей інформаційний лист містить корисну інформацію для Вас, якщо Ви громадянин/громадянка України, або Ви є членом сім’ї громадянина/громадянки України, або Вас визнано в Україні біженцем чи особою без громадянства, Ви … Read more
Последнее обновление: 22 Июль 2024 г. Этот информационный лист содержит полезные для Вас сведения, если Вы гражданин Украины, член семьи гражданина Украины, получили статус беженца или лица без гражданства в Украине, член семьи лица, получившего … Read more
Last updated: 17 July 2024 This document provides you with important information if you are a Ukrainian citizen, you are a Ukrainian citizen’s family member, you have been recognised in Ukraine as a refugee or … Read more
Вы найдете полезную информацию этой брошюре, если вы не являетесь гражданином/гражданкой Украины, но вы жили в Украине и вам пришлось ее покинуть из-за войны.
On 23 March, the court annulled the earlier decision to withdraw Ms Gáborné Nagy’s international protection and ordered the authorities to start a new procedure. The judgement ruled that if the National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing (OIF) still wants to deprive her of her refugee status, it has to find properly founded, reasoned objections, and make them available to the person concerned so that she can express her views.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee is looking for lawyers to carry out national research for an EU-wide mapping study on the topic of access to classified data in national security immigration/asylum cases in Denmark, Finland and … Read more
This project aims at addressing some of the challenges and consequences of a demolished asylum system in Hungary through evidence-based advocacy and litigation. Since 2015, the Hungarian government has been systematically demolishing a functioning asylum … Read more
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has been providing legal information and direct legal assistance in protection-related matters to those having to flee due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We regularly monitor reception facilities where Ukrainian refugees are accommodated throughout Hungary. We summarize our findings in short, thematic reports.
Since 27 May 2020, it is almost impossible to access the asylum procedure in Hungary. Our new information note summarises the litigation struggle of clients represented by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), who lawfully entered … Read more
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s client, a 23-year-old Iraqi man, entered Hungary irregularly in 2015. He immediately informed the police that he needs asylum in Hungary. He was then placed in asylum detention, even though the … Read more
The validity of temporary protection (menedékes) cards is automatically extended until 4 March 2024.
As explored in The Right to Know project in 2021, evoking national security concerns have become a blanket authorisation for some EU Member States to exclude asylum seekers and refugees from protection, reject or withdraw … Read more
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) submitted a third party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights on 17 February 2023 in Trapitsyna and Isaeva v. Hungary, app. no. 5488/22 that concerns the interference with … Read more
The rules for applying for asylum in Hungary have changed. These new rules are in force until the 31st of December 2023. This leaflet contains information on how to apply for asylum (refugee status) in Hungary.
In 2021, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee launched its pilot course to support the social inclusion of foreigners and refugees living in Hungary. This is our film on the empowerment course. Please get in touch with … Read more