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Panic in Nyíregyháza, masses get sick in the school

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On Tuesday afternoon, due to masses feeling sick, several children and adults were transported to the hospital from the József Eötvös Primary School and Grammar School, which belongs to the University of Nyíregyháza. A spokesman for the ambulance service said they took 12 children and 2 adults to the emergency department of the Nyíregyháza hospital for observation. They all complained about scratchy throats and a milder cough. Fortunately, no other symptoms appeared later in the hospital.

270 children in front of the school

Firefighters arrived at the scene with large units, but the disaster management unit did not register any signs of hazardous materials at the scene or inside the school building, a spokesman for the Szabolcs-Szatmár County Disaster Management Directorate told MTI. Szabolcs Online says that more than 270 children waited in front of the school while the police, firefighters, and ambulances investigated what caused the masses of people to get sick. Eyewitnesses said the area around the school looked completely chaotic during the afternoon, after the arrival of the firefighters and then during the investigation. Where, on a regular day, parents arriving for their children are parked, now police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and special vehicles for disaster management were lined up.

Chaos and possibly pepper spray caused the masses to get sick

According to hellomagyar.hu, the first pieces of information suggested chlorine gas poisoning, but the students and teachers interviewed did not smell the characteristic smell of the compound. Several complained that while they were leaving the school building, they felt something irritating their throats, causing them to cough. According to the report, one of the students said someone was “having fun” with pepper spray, and he sprayed most of the school with pepper spray, which caused the problem.

Pepper spray is a legal self-defence tool, used illegally in this case

Pepper spray is a self-defence tool that can be bought legally in Hungary and has an extremely unpleasant effect. It mainly causes tears and coughing; it has a strong effect in almost all cases. Of course, in self-defence situations, a smaller amount of it is used. In this situation, a larger dose may have been sprayed on the school grounds. We have no official information yet on whether the police are investigating the case, but it is likely that they will try to find the person who caused the situation.

Minister committed to fighting against LGBTQ lobby

Hungary is about to send a response to the infringement procedure launched against amendments to its child protection law, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Facebook on Wednesday.

The “attack” on Hungary’s child protection law, which the EU says discriminates against LGBTQ people, is “unfair”, as education is a national competency, she wrote.

“By joining the EU, Hungary only agreed to allow joint competency over certain areas, not relinquish its sovereignty,” the minister wrote. “The education of Hungarian children is not one of those areas. That is the sole responsibility of Hungarian parents.”

“The European Commission resents that we won’t give in to ideological pressure and that we’re stopping the LGBTQ lobby at the school gate.

Our references to the Hungarian Constitution and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights have been in vain as their only goal is to punish Hungary,” she said.

Hungarians will have the opportunity to make their voices heard at the referendum on the law on April 3. “Even Brussels Bureaucrats should respect the results of the referendum,” Varga said.

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Kindergarten teachers molested children in Hungary – Here is the verdict!

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The kindergarten teacher and her partner are also accused of child pornography. Child pornography was shared on forums used by paedophiles. The man sexually abused their shared child.

The child molesters were convicted

A couple was sentenced by the Metropolitan Court to 16 and 9 years in prison. They were charged for sexual violence and multiple accounts of child pornography. The woman working as a kindergarten teacher was the second-degree defendant, while her partner was the first-degree defendant.

They regularly took pornographic photographs and videos of the minors who were placed in their care.

The man also took pornographic pictures of their shared child, and he also forced him to perform sexual acts with him. Furthermore, they both engaged in sexual acts with several minors, both separately and jointly.

The man shared the recordings on various forums with people with similar paedophile interests.

The court delivered its first-instance verdict on Wednesday. Aggravating circumstances included the set, the series of offences, the classification as an accomplice, and the age of the minors. The youngest child was still an infant, while the oldest was just a preschooler.

In contrast, it was a mitigating circumstance that the couple had a history of impunity. Also, the kindergarten teacher testified and regretted her behaviour, according to the court.

The court sentenced the couple to 16 (man) and 9 (woman) years in prison.

The court also banned them from all activities related to children. The court revoked the man’s parental custody, wrote szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu.

The prosecution asked for 3 days to reflect on the case of the kindergarten teacher and asked for a longer term of imprisonment in the case of her partner. The defendants appealed the decision. Thus, the decision of the first instance is not final, writes 24.hu.

The court upheld the man’s arrest and arrested his partner on Thursday. This also prevents the risk of absconding, hiding, and recidivism.

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UNICEF releases child protection guide and Hungarian statistics

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UNICEF Hungary on Friday said it has released an online guide on child protection which offers practical advice on how to recognise and fight child abuse.

The guide offers advice to both victims and witnesses on how to spot signs of child abuse and how to approach situations of suspected abuse.

UNICEF Hungary has also posted videos on its website in which experts offer help for resolving everyday difficult situations concerning the treatment of children.

The organisation also noted its free mobile application HelpAPP aimed at educating children on violence, helping them recognise abuse and giving advice on what to do in certain situations.

The statement noted a representative survey on attitudes towards child abuse in Hungary carried out by UNICEF in 2020, in which 83 percent of respondents said they opposed the physical punishment of children.

However, 14 percent said corporal punishment was “an everyday practice” when it came to disciplining children, while 38 percent said that “a few slaps here and there are not damaging to children”.

Asked what could be considered abuse, 30 percent said verbal scolding, 14 percent said taking away children’s mobile phones and 20 percent said grounding children fell into that category.

Altogether 74 percent said they considered depriving their children of love, while 63 percent found the silent treatment to the most abusive form of discipline.

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PM Orbán: “we want our own children, not foreign children, to inherit this country”

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If Fidesz wins the April 3 general election, the government will expand family support schemes and, depending on economic performance, even increase financial support, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to public radio on Friday.
 
Orbán told Kossuth Rádió that it was his personal goal to ensure that the financial circumstances of people raising children should improve, adding: “There’s no future without children”. “We want our own children, not foreign children, to inherit this country,” the prime minister said. “With children, there’s a future, but without there’s no future for the family or for the country.”
 
Hungary spends more on family support than any other European country, he said, indicating that nowhere else do governments attach so much importance to children and families.
 
The aim, he added, was to create the right conditions so that families bear the responsibility of having children. “We don’t want to become an immigrant country.”
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Kidnapped in Sweden? Interpol helps the Hungarian father to find his daughter

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A Hungarian man – who lives in Sweden – is desperately searching for his 10-year-old daughter. The father has not heard from his daughter ever since the little girl was taken by her mother in July 2020. Interpol is already working together with the father to find his beloved child who has not been seen for 18 months.

Levente Csulak has been a Swedish resident since 1990. In 2004, during one of his visits back to Hungary, he met his ex-wife, Mónika. Shortly after, the woman left her home country to live with him in Sweden. Their daughter Fanny was born in 2011.

Over the years, the couple broke up but agreed to share joint custody. Fanny spent one week with her mother and one week with her father. At least, it worked like that

until July 2020, when suddenly both the mother and the little girl disappeared.

As the Hungarian news portal Blikk reports, this is not the first time that the woman took the little girl away from her father. Mónika had previously asked the father to allow her to move to Stockholm with their daughter, more than 400 kilometres away, but Levente did not agree. Despite the father’s objection, the woman took the decision which meant that Levente could not see his daughter for two months. According to the distressed man, his ex-wife had also accused him of abuse which was proven to be a lie.

The Hungarian man is now desperately searching for his beloved daughter.

Fanny’s disappearance is already under investigation by Interpol.

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The last time Levente saw his daughter was on 17th June 2020, when he dropped Fanny off at school. He only spoke to her on the phone a month later. Although Fanny had always been a cheerful happy child, at that time she hardly wanted to talk. She said goodbye by whispering “I love you, Dad”. Those were her last words before her disapperance. Three days later, the woman was supposed to take back the child to Levente, but this did not happen. Since then, Levente has not been able to reach his daughter. The telephone is turned off. According to the desperate father, his ex-wife must have kidnapped their daughter.

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One month after Fanny’s disappearance, authorities received a report that mother and daughter had been quarantined in a village in Fejér County, Hungary. However, by the time the police arrived, they were already gone. The house was owned by a friend of the woman, who did not know that the mother and her child were on the run from the authorities.

The concerned father is in great despair. He feels helpless that he does not know anything about Fanny. Levente says he will never give up the hope that one day he can finally embrace his daughter in his arms again.

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Absurd court decision orders Hungarian mother in coma to pay child support

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A Hungarian woman has been in a coma for 8 years. A few months ago, her ex-husband sued her for not paying child support.

The story

As Blikk reported in August 2021, Katalin Varga has been in a coma for eight years. After an operation to remove a benign brain tumour, a bacteria attacked her body, and she went into a vegetative state. What is more, the hospital where she contracted the bacteria did not even treat her with antibiotics for a whole week.

Her 59-year-old mother, Éva Kistaj, has been caring for Katalin ever since she took her home from the hospital.

Katalin has two children whom their father took in after the tragedy. Since then, he has not even brought the siblings to the grandparents to visit, and he will not let them see their mother at all.

“In the first three years, my daughter used to look at the door and cry a lot when her children were mentioned, or when she heard their voices in old videos,”

cried the broken grandmother.

Katalin is able to sense everything: she can hear, see, and feel. But she cannot move freely. She is awake, communicates by blinking, can close her mouth on demand, and follows movements with her eyes. Her mother is with her 24/7 and helps her with everything.

If all this was not bad enough, her ex-husband sued Katalin for child support. The children’s father has also initiated an enforcement action against the grandmother, claiming money from her for the maintenance of blood relatives. The grandmother and the mother have accumulated debts of more than HUF 400,000 (EUR 1,123) and can be visited by the debt collector at any moment.

Updates on the story

Now, on January 20, atv.hu reported that Katalin can now move her arms and legs and even smile. However, there is still a long road to recovery. The accumulated debts of her and her mother are now HUF 600,000 (EUR 1,685) which they should pay to the debt collector. But there is no money to pay all that. Every forint is needed to keep the mother of two alive and to rehabilitate her.

Even though her father did not let her see her mother, Eszter, the daughter of Katalin, has been visiting her mother quite frequently since she turned 18 years old. Perhaps it is thanks to her visits that her mother’s condition is rapidly improving.

“A few days ago, the doctor noticed that my daughter can smile now. She moves her limbs to music and responds positively to exercise. To others, these may seem like small victories, everyday miracles, but they are important for Kata’s recovery,”

says the grandmother.

“I thank God every day that my beautiful daughter is alive. Sometimes strangers come to me to help, some with a prayer, others with a conversation. I get a lot of faith and love from them.”

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Top Court gives final green light for child protection referendum

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In a ruling posted on its website on Thursday, Hungary’s Constitutional Court rejected all claims against a planned referendum on Hungary’s child protection law, ruling that parliamentary approval of the referendum was in line with the constitution, according to Alapjogokért Központ, a think-tank.
 
The ruling cleared all legal hurdles from holding the referendum, the think-tank said on Facebook. The popular vote concerns the rights of parents over their children’s education. President Áder now has 15 days to set a date for the referendum, which must then be held within 70-90 days.
 
“Hungarian citizens can make decisions on issues that have a direct impact on their or their children’s lives such as the sex education of children, the promotion of gender reassignment surgery, and media content showing such interventions,” Alapjogokért said.
 
 
“Western political elites have basically adopted as official policy the madness called gender ideology without asking the people first,” the think-tank said.
 
Alapjogokért accused leftist parties of working “hand in hand with the network of Open Society”, a foundation set up by financier George Soros, to attack the referendum.
 
It added that opposition prime ministerial candidate Péter Márki-Zay had branded the referendum questions as “stupid”.
 
Hungary’s parliament passed amendments to its child protection law last June, aiming to protect children from “LGBTQ propaganda”.
 
The measure was condemned by the Venice Commission as incompatible with international human rights norms.
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Child protection law: The Lion King questioning traditional gender roles?

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Authorities examined for two weeks whether The Lion King questioned traditional gender roles or not. Since the parliament accepted the new Hungarian child protection law, the number of reports skyrocketed in the issue. Many people turned to the authorities, even with titles like The Lion King, Mulan, Pumukli, and Sleeping Beauty.

130 reports including ‘The Lion King’ in 6 months

As we reported before, the parliament accepted the so-called homophobic law in June with the votes of Fidesz, the Christian Democrats and Jobbik. The original bill aimed to tighten the penalty for sexual crimes against children and make a list of perpetrators to help defend the younger generation. Furthermore, it implemented stricter punishment if the perpetrator was an official and also forbade perpetrators to work with underaged people. However, Fidesz amended the bill. Thus, the final law prohibited the 

promotion and presentation of homosexuality or gender reassignment for those under 18 years of age. 

Many NGOs said then that the decision was a frontal attack on freedom of expression and children’s rights.

However, the parliament accepted the law coming to effect on 1 July. Since then, the media authority has received 130 reports from the citizens. Most of them were about the presentation of homosexuality and the protection of the underaged. Before, this number was only 30. The media authority started investigation in only one case, but they have not yet decided in 23 cases – rtl.hu reported today.

If media contents violate the prohibition of the promotion and presentation of homosexuality, citizens can turn to government offices. Interestingly, authorities received only 6 of these reports until October 31. In Vas county, somebody reported

The Lion King, Mulan, Pumukli, and Sleeping Beauty, probably to mock the new law.

However, the authorities examined these movies for 14 days. Afterwards, they decided that the complaint was not thorough enough.

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The situation getting worse for the LGBTQ community?

Rtl.hu said that the government office of Pest county fined the distributor of a book titled “Micsoda család!”, which is about two rainbow families. The cause was that they placed it in the shop improperly because they

should have warned their customers that it had “unusual” content.

The distributor turned to court because of the decision.

The news portal mentioned the case of a lesbian couple. They kissed in front of a block of flats for which somebody threw eggs on them. One of them said that the situation became worse in the last few months. She highlighted that more people speak or act rudely, and that is because of the government’s new law mixing the LGBTQ community with sexual predators. She also said they are not afraid, but this tendency concerns them.

Tamás Dombos, the leader of the Háttér Társaság, the largest and oldest currently operating LGBTQI organization in Hungary, confirmed the negative trend. He said that

they received more reports from members of the community.

He added that the number of offences rose, and homophobic people feel they can use even violence against the LGBTQI people.

 

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‘Turnaround’ in fertility rate in Hungary?

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Owing to the government’s consistent family support measures over the past ten years, the number of children Hungarian families are raising has returned to pre-1995 levels, Bence Rétvári, parliamentary deputy state secretary of the ministry of human resources, told daily Magyar Nemzet’s Friday edition.
 
Rétvári welcomed the increase in Hungary’s fertility rate as “a potential turnaround”.
 
Referring to Central Statistical Office (KSH) data, Rétvári noted that the rate was 1.59 in the January-November period this year, up from 1.57 in 1995, before austerity measures introduced by Lajos Bokros, the then finance minister.
 
The fertility rate had been declining since 1979,
 
when Hungary’s fertility rate was above 2.0. It declined to 1.8 at the time of the 1989-90 change in political system before dropping even further, to an all-time low of 1.2 after the 2008 “crisis management” of the previous Gyurcsány-Bajnai left-wing government, Rétvári said.
 
 
Rétvári, a lawmaker of the co-ruling Christian Democrats, said their government
 
“strongly believes in families”,
 
which is why, he added, it had introduced a multitude of schemes to help couples wanting to raise children.
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Red Cross, baptists deliver gifts to Hungarian children

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The Hungarian Red Cross, in cooperation with a chain store, has collected 34 tonnes of goods it will distribute at Christmas among people and families in need, the organisation said on Thursday. The Hungarian Baptist Charity has collected 50,930 individual donations packed in shoe boxes to be given as Christmas presents to children in poor families, the charity told MTI on Thursday.
 
In the case of the Red Cross, the goods include durable food, sanitary and hygienic supplies, sweets and toys donated by customers in 24 Auchan department stores over the past two Advent weekends across the country, it said in a statement.
 
 
The donations will be sorted into combined packages by social care experts and distributed with the help of the Red Cross’s regional offices. “The donations will
 
help us support 9,700 people and families primarily at Christmas time
 
but also later on during ordinary days for a couple of weeks,” Judit Waller-Fekete, a representative of Red Cross, said in the statement.
 
 
The Hungarian Baptist Charity said that some 10,000 donations had poured in in the last two days of the popular Shoe Box Campaign, held for the 18th time this year.
 
Some of the boxes will go to ethnic Hungarian children in Romania and Ukraine.
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Government not supporting single parents enough?

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Opposition Socialist lawmaker Ildikó Borbély Bangóné called for an increase in family support on Thursday, adding that some of the benefits had not changed for 13 years.
 
She told an online press conference that it was a lie that bringing forward January payments to December helped families.
 
“It only means that families will not get support for more than a month,”
 
she said.

Bangóné said that having children still represented “one of the greatest financial risks” in Hungary. The risk of ending up in poverty and social exclusion is especially high among single parents, with 28.2 percent of them living in poverty last year as against 21.6 percent in 2018, she added.
 
She also called for
 
expanding the group of people eligible for the government’s family home purchase subsidies (csok).
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Pope Francis supports Hungarian charity campaig helping covid orphans

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Pope Francis is sending a statue of St Joseph to be auctioned at a charity auction organised by Hungarian public media in support of Hungarian orphans who have lost parents to the coronavirus pandemic, Beatrix Siklósi, the director of public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, said on Sunday.

The statue depicts St Joseph teaching carpentry to the Christ Child, she said.

First Lady Anita Herczegh, the chairwoman of the board of the Regőczi Foundation for children orphaned in the pandemic, noted that the foundation was launched last spring when the number of young parents started succumbing to Covid.

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By the start of the charity programme broadcast on the Duna, Duna World, M5 and M4 Sport channels on Sunday morning, the campaign had already collected close to 100 million forints (€ 272,000), Siklósi said.

Various celebrities such as Olympic fencer Áron Szilágyi and epee fencer Tímea Nagy are participating, she said.

On Sunday, more than 304 million forints (€ 845,000) was donated to the campaign, with both national bus carrier Volánbusz and national rail operator MÁV having made contributions.

Róbert Homolya, MÁV’s president and chief executive, said the pandemic had taken a great toll on the company and many of its 56,000 employees, some who had passed away were parents.

Bids for items were up until 10pm, but donation lines are open until the end of the year.

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Hungarian First Lady and Cardinál Erdő gave Christmas presents for 250 children

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Cardinal Péter Erdő, the Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, and First Lady Anita Herczegh on Saturday gave out packages to 250 children living in poverty at the Sacred Heart Church in Budapest’s 12th district.

Erdő greeted the children and said Jesus was present in all children. “When we give to you, we do so as if we gave to the Baby Jesus,” he said.

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Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and the Hungarian First Lady gave out packages to children living in poverty
Photo: MTI/Mohai Balázs

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Miklós Soltész, the state secretary responsible for state and church relations, told MTI that 2021 was a “busy year” for charity organisations, starting with the aid sent to the victims of an earthquake in central Croatia, to supporting children who lost parents to the coronavirus pandemic through the Regőczi Foundation.

Students of Catholic schools assembled 450 packages from donations, addressed to specific children. The rest of the packages will be distributed in rural Hungary and Transcarpathia.

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Tragic! Many children with Covid-19 are in intensive care

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The pandemic is affecting children more seriously than many people would assume.

Surviving the pandemic seems to be easier for those who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. They can somewhat get back to a sense of normality without the numerous restrictions. Others are looking at the situation from another perspective, thinking not only about their freedom but also about the protection and safety of others. There are people, however, who are anti-vax or simply wait for another vaccine to be available, such as Novavax. But there is one demographic that is not often mentioned in the discussions about the pandemic, a demographic that many people thought were protected against the virus. 

While there is a misinformation that children do not get infected with the virus, the truth is far from it. Many children with Covid-19 were taken to intensive care and put on ventilators. There were 100 children with Covid-19 in intensive care during the third wave of the pandemic. Many of these young patients are under the age of 10. If they survive and recover, they will be protected against the virus for only half a year.

Fifty children with Covid-19 were taken to the Heim Pal Children’s Hospital since January. The chief medical officer of the hospital told RTL that even healthy children can get the virus and badly suffer from the consequences.

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Currently, Pfizer is the only vaccine that can be administered to children. Portfolio writes that 69,000 doses of the vaccine suitable for children aged between 5 and 11 have arrived to Hungary. One hundred cars started delivering the vaccines at 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

The first doses arrived at the Heim Pál Children’s Hospital in Budapest. The hospital functions as a logistic center. They received 600 vaccines, out of which 342 would be taken to Semmelweis University, Dél-pesti Centrumkórház (South Pest Central Hospital), and Szent János Hospital. The vaccines that arrived in Budapest are sufficient for 36,000 children.

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Woman fired for “risk of repeated childbirth” sued her employee

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A Hungarian woman, who got fired for having a baby, sued her employer. The employer refused to renew her contract due to the “risk of repeated childbirth”. What makes matters worse is that she worked at a state body.

Due to the “risk of repeated childbirth,” an employer did not renew the contract of a female employee. – wrote 24.hu. This occurred despite the fact that the woman did an impeccable job at her workplace. She sued the employer and turned to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (Magyar Helsinki Bizottság) for help.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee was founded in 1989. It began providing professional legal assistance in 1994. The public benefit human rights organization “protects human dignity through legal and public activities.” – as they state on their official website. They help refugees, detainees, and victims of law enforcement violence.

The Hungarian woman who sued her former employer started working in 2015. She had a 1.5 years long contract, which was first renewed. Meanwhile, she gave birth to a child after which her contract did not get renewed. The employer argued that she did not fulfill the criteria of the internship program. The woman did her job well yet she was left unemployed. She was encouraged to apply for a new internship.

When she applied to an internship again, she was rejected. When she inquired a reason for that, she was told by an HR employee that it is because she would probably give birth to a child again. The violation was particularly severe since it occurred in the public sector.

Now 24.hu writes that the woman went through with the legal process. With the help of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, she sued her former employer. Even though they lost the first case in February, the legal process continued. Eventually, she won the case.

The former employer has to pay her HUF 5 million (EUR 13,694) for damages.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee happily announced in a Facebook post that the case has been successfully settled. Balázs Tóth, the lawyer who represented the plaintiff, also expressed his opinion about the case.

“It is unacceptable that an employer would not employ a woman because of a possible future pregnancy.” He also added that this violation of law is especially severe because it happened at a state body and many women were victims of it. He also elaborated on the recent governmental measures Hungarians hear all the time about population decrease, family protection, support for expectant mothers and parents as well as the duty of women yet it was a woman who fell victim to such discrimination.

The fact that the woman got fired for having a baby dramatically contradicts the encouraging messages of the government’s family planning programs.

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Hungary’s First Lady draws attention to foundation helping children orphaned by Covid

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Hungary’s First Lady has drawn attention to the fact that the proceeds of a fair held at the InterContinental hotel in Budapest will go to the Regőczi Foundation that helps children orphaned by Covid.

Anita Herczegh, who heads the foundation’s board of trustees, noted that the embassies of 25 countries are selling the specialties, handicrafts, food, drinks and souvenirs of their nation at the fair organised by the Budapest Association of Diplomatic Spouses. Also, traditional dances will be performed at the event.

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President János Áder and his wife established the Regőczi Foundation in 2021. It provides long-term care for children who have lost one or both parents in the pandemic.

The foundation is also supported by a public media charity campaign to be held for the 10th time this year. By dialing 1357 or sending an SMS to the same number, the foundation will receive 500 forints per call.

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UNICEF Hungary lights Budapest buildings blue for World Children’s Day – PHOTOS

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To mark World Children’s Day, UNICEF Hungary has launched a campaign entitled Face the Problem to help children struggling with depression and other mental problems.

Children experiencing difficulties can be helped if their problems are not treated as taboos and asking for help is not regarded as something to be ashamed of, the organisation said in a statement on Saturday.

One out of seven in the 10-19 age group reports frequent anxiety, while almost one in five reported persistent depression and a lack of motivation.

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In Europe alone 9 million young people are affected by such problems, it said, adding that the pandemic has put the mental health of an entire generation at risk.

UNICEF Hungary has launched a free online course to help teachers recognise and prevent the mental problems of children under their care.

Landmark buildings and monuments in twenty localities are being floodlit tonight to mark the day. In Budapest the Palace of Arts, the Duna Arena and the Puskas Arena are all specially illuminated.

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Several sights of Budapest were painted blue on Saturday to remember World Children’s Day
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