rights

10/12/2018

Opposition parties to filibuster parliament vote on ‘slave law’

The #amendment submitted to the #labour code envisages increasing annual #overtime from 250 hours to 400 hours #Hungary #labourmarket #law
09/12/2018

Opposition slams goverment’s ‘anti-homeless’ measures

"The #government fails to help the needy and instead has introduced laws that put #homeless people into #prison"
04/12/2018

Hungarian government lacks policy for women?

"#Women still don't have #equal opportunities" #Hungary #Hungarian #society
28/11/2018

Foreign minister: Hungary rejects endeavours to encourage migration

"#Hungary disagrees with the assumption that #migration is a basic #human #right"
27/11/2018

Annual human rights forum begins in Budapest

The #government has a complex approach towards #human #rights by considering them in the context of #security issues
22/11/2018

Investigation dropped in Hedvig Malina case

#MalinaHedvig suffered a beating by two skinheads in #Slovakia -- allegedly due to her ethnicity. Later on, she was charged with providing false testimony...
21/11/2018

Hungarian MEP calls for EU strategy against poverty on International Child Rights Day

"#Children are the building blocks of strong #nations" #UNICEF #WorldChildren'sDay
16/11/2018

United Nations experts suspend Hungary visit

#UN experts suspended an official visit to Hungary after they had been denied access to the #transit #zones on the #Hungary-#Serbia border #unitednations #mgration
27/10/2018

MEPs protest Ukrainian language law

The law makes compulsory the use of Ukrainian as an official language in education and other areas! #ukraine #hungary #kárpátalja #transcarpathia #eu
15/10/2018

Hungarian foreign minister: Migration and illegal border crossing are not human rights

"The #migration #compact cannot be accepted since it poses a #threat to the #world and it goes against the #interests of #Europe"
03/10/2018

Orbán’s cabinet: We won’t change migration policy

"We believe #everyone has the #right to decide whom they wish to #live together with"
29/09/2018

Hungary continues to reject UN migration package

"The compact is based on the false principle that #migration is a basic #human #right" - Hungarian FM Szijjártó #un #unitednations #hungary #hungarian #government
27/09/2018

Hungarian foreign minister meets Jewish leaders in US

#Hungarian FM Szijjártó voiced concern about recent developments "indicating a rise of anti-Semitism in certain parts of #western #Europe" #hungary #jewish #religion #un
25/09/2018

Hungarian foreign minister: Parts of world safe to date now threatened

"The #view that #migration is a #fundamental #human #right should be rooted out"
21/09/2018

Jobbik calls on government to withdraw ‘muzzle order’

"Ruling #Fidesz wants to devour the last remaining crumbs of freedom" - #Jobbik #hungary #hungarian #government
14/09/2018

UN: ’Shameful reprisals’ on human rights activists in Hungary

#UnitedNations #report: Shameful reprisals in #Hungary "The world owes it to those brave people standing up for #human #rights"
14/09/2018

Jobbik on the Sargentini report and the destroyers of Europe

#Jobbik on the Sargentini report #hungary #hungarian #eu #europeanunion
14/09/2018

Orbán: The EU wants to strip Hungary of right to control border

"It is a fact that the centre of modern #anti-#Semitism, where #anti-#Israel forces against PM Netanyahu are financed from, is in Brussels (#EU)" - PM #Orbán #hungary #hungarian #politics #europeanunion
04/09/2018

NGOs call on MEPs to launch Article 7 proceedings against Hungary – UPDATE

#Orbán #cabinet "has stepped off this common path, curbing media freedom, freedom of association and undermining the independence of its courts" #hungary #hungarian #politics #government
03/09/2018

LMP calls on Orbán cabinet to support interests of Vojvodina Hungarians during Serbia EU accession

#Hungary's first priority should be protecting the interests of the 250,000 #Vojvodina #Hungarians living in #Serbia - #LMP #délvidék #vajdaság