Women and transgender people were discriminated against in law and in practice. Asylum-seekers were refused safe entry at borders and were expelled. Changes to laws to contain COVID-19 restricted freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. The government continued to undermine judicial...

Peaceful protest is a powerful and public way for people to make their voices heard. It has long been a vital means for advancing human rights around the world. However, in Europe, the right of peaceful assembly is increasingly coming under attack, with state authorities stigmatizing, impeding,...

This report explores the effects of Act LXXIX of 2021 and Government Decree 473/2021 (VIII.6.), commonly known as the Propaganda Law. This law prohibits the “depiction and promotion” of “diverse gender identities and sexual orientations” in some forms of public communications, including in public...

This report explores the effects of Act LXXIX of 2021 and Government Decree 473/2021 (VIII.6.), commonly known as the Propaganda Law. This law prohibits the “depiction and promotion” of “diverse gender identities and sexual orientations” in some forms of public communications, including in public...

Amnesty International calls on the Hungarian government to repeal the recently adopted law “on the transparency of civil society organizations capable of influencing public life” (hereinafter: the new LEXNGO) that further stigmatizes non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the recently adopted...

Amnesty International calls on the Hungarian Officer for Fundamental Rights (hereafter the Ombudsperson) to publicly condemn and immediately refer to the Constitutional Court the recently adopted and promulgated law (hereafter the Hungarian Propaganda Law) that would ban education and advertising...

This briefing provides a review of the impact of the law restricting Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) adopted in Hungary in 2017, that requires civil society organizations receiving support from foreign and international sources to register as “foreign-funded”. Amnesty International urges the...

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Hungary in its previous Universal Periodic Review. The organization also assesses the national human rights framework and the Parliament’s recent measures regarding the restrictive amendments of the...

The Government of Hungary has initiated and implemented several steps between 2010 and 2020 that have adversely impacted the independence and impartiality of judicial institutions in Hungary. The first European Commission Rule of Law report of 2020 found that over the past years, EU institutions...

Amnesty International calls on the Hungarian Parliament to reject the proposed 9th Amendment to the Fundamental Law (the Hungarian Constitution) and the draft bill T/13648 (hereinafter the omnibus bill) that further undermines the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI)...

On 11 March, the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic and called on states to take urgent measures to tackle it. This report covers 12 countries and exposes how the enforcement of the ‘lockdown measures’ adopted by many European states have...

Although the law prohibits gender-based discrimination in Hungary, women continue to experience widespread discrimination on the grounds of their sex/gender and for being a mother both in the workplace and in the labour market more generally. This report examines the discrimination pregnant women...

The present research found that Hungarian judges think institutional judicial independence is being severely undermined in Hungary. Although on paper the judiciary is a separate branch of power, this principle has come under attacks from the courts’ central administration and other branches of...