On April 29, President Klaus Iohannis resorted to incitement against the country’s Hungarian minority – the first serious attack of this nature from a Romanian head of state since the fall of communism three decades ago. In a two-minute video denunciation, Iohannis falsely accused the 1.5 million-strong Hungarian community – and DAHR, a parliamentary party representing it – of conspiring with the opposition Romanian Social Democrat Party (PSD) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a secessionist plot to destroy Romania’s territorial integrity.… Read More

Philanthropists around the globe are coming together to support non-profits on #GivingTuesdayNow.
The campaign launches as an emergency response to the unheard-of needs caused by COVID-19. Please consider using this opportunity to supporting our mission.… Read More

Dear Friends,
It is with a heavy heart that we commemorate the first anniversary of the passing of HHRF’s co-founder, László Hámos, our inspirational leader and friend. We’d like to honor his memory by sharing an excerpt of his eloquent remarks given in 1990 at the Hungarian State Theater in Kolozsvár/Cluj describing a goal worth a lifetime. “So that someday, we might finally be at home…” … Read More

Kedves Barátunk,
Nehéz szívvel osztjuk meg szomorúságunkat, amelyet a HHRF társalapítójának, példaképünknek és barátunknak, Hámos László elhunytának egy éves évfordulóján érzünk. Munkásságának ezen pár perces, a zsúfolásig telt Kolozsvári Magyar Színházban, 1990 novemberében mondott beszédrészletével szeretnénk méltó emléket állítani. … Read More

A delegation from the Hungarian Community Association met with Education Ministry State Secretary, Mónika Filip, on April 1st. Just two weeks into the job, the ethnic Hungarian official’s portfolio includes education in minority languages. Ms. Filip told Felvidek.ma on April 5 that one of her first steps was to make the ministry’s website available in the Hungarian, Ruthenian and Roma languages. Emphasizing the actual implementation of reforms, the State Secretary mentioned shoring up minority teachers, quality and quantity of textbooks in minority languages, and strengthening instruction of Slovak as a second language for minority students.… Read More

If you live in the United States, you will be counted during the 2020 census. It is important that under the question about your race, you not only check the appropriate box but write in “HUNGARIAN” so that the Hungarian-American community can be officially counted.… Read More

For the first time since Slovakia gained independence, Hungarians, the country’s largest national minority, will not have any parliamentary representation. Neither of the two ethnic Hungarian coalitions met the five percent threshold in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, February 29. … Read More

Hundreds of millions of euros worth of state tax revenue has been lost, and promises to be lost, to southern Slovakia, including Hungarian-inhabited settlements, due to the disproportionate funding of local governments, said Péter Őry chairman of the Hungarian Community Party at a news conference on January 28. The disadvantage stems from the distribution mechanism used to return the share of taxes on natural persons to municipalities. … Read More

For the fourth year running, the Hungarian Community Party (MKP)  filed another complaint to the regulatory body of the Slovak Public Media Service and the State Prosecutor for failing to uphold the law that proscribes proportionate hours of minority language programming on public television.… Read More