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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

The party representing the 150,000-strong Hungarian minority in Ukraine has protested official action against the display of minority symbols and Hungarian-language inscriptions, all protected by law. In Mukachevo (Munkács) and some villages of the surrounding sub-region, where the majority of … Read More

The Hungarian Human Rights Foundation (HHRF) has partnered with Hungarian American Coalition (HAC) and Carpathian Foundation to purchase and deliver a mobile medical pediatric unit to Odessa Memorial Hospital, which arrived there on August 3rd. The mobile medical pediatric unit … 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HHRF president Zsolt Szekeres submitted the following, as of yet unpublished letter to the editor of the New York Times in response to the June 16, 2022 article entitled “In Ukraine, a Minority Group Feels Ambivalence About the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   June 18, … Read More

HHRF ALERT: Ukrainian President Zelensky’s Bill on Indigenous Peoples Excludes Hungarian MinorityILO Convention, Venice Commission Ignored 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 … Read More

You may have read recent articles in the New York Times and Washington Post that question the veracity of the unprecedented assault against the ethnic Hungarian community in Subcarpathia, Ukraine. HHRF has written an objection to the Editor of the New York Times and we urge you to write as well, no … Read More

Sole Parliamentary Representative for the Community Appeals to European Parliament Following armed raids at the homes of ethnic Hungarian community leaders in Subcarpathia, Ukraine the president of the Cultural Alliance of Hungarians in Subcarpathia (KMKSZ) called on the newly-elected European Parliament president … Read More

A jogszabály visszavonását kezdeményező határozati javaslatokat a posztjáról leváltott, Oroszországba menekült Moszkva-barát exelnök, Viktor Janukovics egykori híveiből álló Ellenzéki Blokk frakciójának tagjai nyújtották be. Az ülésen felszólalva kifejtették, hogy a nyelvtörvény megítélésük szerint sérti az alkotmánynak az orosz és más … Read More

„Állítsuk meg a szeparatistákat” felirattal és a kárpátaljai magyar közösség vezetőinek neveivel, valamint fényképeivel jelentek meg óriásplakátok szombat reggelre a főutak mellett Ungvár, Munkács és Beregszász körzetében.  A fehér alapú, ukrán nyelvű óriásplakátokon Brenzovics László, a Kárpátaljai Magyar Kulturális Szövetség (KMKSZ) … Read More