Magyarul Dear Friend and Supporter, The Hungarian Human Rights Foundation (HHRF) – and the Hungarian minority communities we serve – met this year’s challenges with ingenuity and determination. Then again, we are all too familiar with overwhelming odds and curveballs, knowing the future … Read More

HHRF Executive Director Emese Latkóczy’s opinion piece in The  Washington Times entitled “U.S.-Ukraine relations: Minority rights an issue all sides can and must support,” dated September 9, 2021.… Read More

Minorities in Ukraine: Four Questions to Ask President Zelensky

The upcoming White House meeting between Presidents Biden and Zelenskywill focus on expanded strategic cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine. Yet little attention is paid to the fact that the rights of Ukraine’s minorities have been continually eroded since 2014.

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Ten ethnic Hungarians from minority communities in the Carpathian Basin met with Hungarian-American youth at an innovative HHRF workshop, held August 6-7 at the bucolic Bercel Castle conference venue in Hungary.The goal: to encourage cooperation and advocacy on current human rights issues affecting Hungarian minorities.… Read More

In an inexplicable move, the bill submitted by President Zelensky on Indigenous Peoples in the Ukraine excludes the 150,000 Hungarian community which has inhabited the Subcarpathia region of the country for over 1,000 years.

Meanwhile, the Council of Europe advisory Venice Commission, among others, has consistently called on Ukraine to apply constitutional norms regarding the equal treatment of all indigenous peoples and national minorities.… Read More

What you, our friends and supporters also know, is precisely that you don’t know when human rights violations are going to rear their ugly heads; nor what more pressing matters the world is going to be preoccupied with when the highest elected official incites to hatred against its largest national minority, or armed commandos raid the home and institutions of a small, impoverished community, or that the European Parliament actually does the right thing and listens to the 1.1 million supporters of the Minority SafePack Citizens Initiative.
As with many other non-profits, we have had to adjust to a decline in major funding which necessarily affects our capacity and programming. But, as you can read below in the top developing issues, the challenges have not allowed HHRF to quarantine.
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Nem gyengült az erdélyi magyarság képviselete, az RMDSZ megőrizte mandátumai számát a bukaresti parlamentben – derült ki a hétfőn, 2020. december 14-én közzétett végleges eredményekből. A magyar képviselet jelentősége azért is nőtt meg, mert bekerült a román törvényhozásba a nacionalista Románok Egyesüléséért Szövetség (AUR), amely az úzvölgyi katonatemetőnél történt incidensekkel hívta fel magára a figyelmet.… Read More

On Monday, November 30, armed commando units of the Ukrainian Security Forces (SBU) raided top Hungarian minority institutions throughout the Subcarpathian region, as well as the home of leader László Brenzovics.… Read More

A gyász pillanataiban különösen nehéz vállalkozás összefoglalni mindazokat az eseményeket és erőfeszítéseket, amelyek negyven éven keresztül elválaszthatatlanul összekötötték a HHRF és Szőcs Géza életét. Alapítványunk látóterében 1980-ban jelent meg az akkor még csak 27 éves erdélyi költő, amikor a Herder-ösztöndíj megnyerése után először az Egyesült Államokba látogatott.… Read More