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DOWNLOAD THE PDF REPORT On June 12, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe issued its opinion on the Law on national minorities (communities) adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament in December 2022. As previously reported,  as a result of a joint Hungarian-Romanian … Read More

DOWNLOAD IN PDF As Ukraine faces ongoing conflict and strives for EU and NATO accession, the government in Kyiv has drawn criticism from international organizations for its restrictions on the rights of ethnic minorities, including those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for the … Read More

HHRF participated in a conference on “Preserving Identity in the Face of Oppression: Religious Freedom and National Identity in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia,” organized by Freedom and Identity in Central Europe (FICE) and the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) on February 2, at the Meridian … Read More

HHRF president Zsolt Szekeres submitted the following, as of yet unpublished letter to the editor of the New York Times in response to the June 16, 2022 article entitled “In Ukraine, a Minority Group Feels Ambivalence About the War”:Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/world/europe/ethnic-hungarians-ukraine-war.html

Minority Rights Activists Meet with Hungarian-American Youth Ten ethnic Hungarians from minority communities in the Carpathian Basin met with Hungarian-American youth at an innovative workshop, held August 6-7 at the bucolic Bercel Castle conference venue in Bercel, Hungary. The goal: … Read More