73 result(s) for international child rights day
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's New Border Regime Threatens Asylum Seekers
- 21 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Press Release: Hungary’s new border regime denies access to asylum and exposes vulnerable people to violence and prosecution, Human Rights Watch said today. Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants have been trapped in Serbia as a result of the de facto closure of the Hungarian border since September 15, 2015, when a new border regime came into force and a border fence was completed.
Hungary: Abysmal Conditions in Border Detention
- 11 Sep 2015 11:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants and asylum seekers are being held in abysmal conditions in the two Roszke migrant detention centers on the Serbian border, Human Rights Watch said today after obtaining footage from inside the camp and interviewing persons currently and formerly detained there. Hungarian police intercept asylum seekers and migrants entering via Serbia and detain them for days for registration and ...
Dispatches: Stranded In Budapest’s Train Station
- 4 Sep 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
By Lydia Gall: “Why are they lying to us? Why did police tell me that the train will go to Germany when it will really go to [a] camp?” asked Mohammed, 34, from Syria, when I told him that the train he was about to board this morning was not heading to Austria and Germany but to a processing center outside Budapest.
Hungary: Ideal Gateway For West-Bound Asylum-Seekers
- 9 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
By mid-February 2015 more asylum-seekers had entered Hungary than the whole of the European Union by late March 2014. Where are they coming from? Of all the countries of the European Union, why are they converging on Hungary? Why is this country a prime destination for Kosovars? Why is the ostensibly impenetrable Schengen frontier full of holes?
Hungary: Loving It, Leaving It
- 23 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
By David Landry: When I first came here, local folks mostly asked me “Why Hungary?” Now when I tell them I’m leaving, they say “It’s a good time.” So what has happened in the past 19 years?
A Turn To The Right In Hungary - An Analysis Of The 2010-2014 Period
- 11 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Conflicts with Brussels, utility cost cuts, symbolic debates. Just about every conflict of the past four years Viktor Orbán's administration went into was because of sovereignty and the shaping of a new framework for its interpretation. When did the cabinet have to retreat and when did the EU acknowledge that the rebellious Hungarian government was right?
“Enterpreneurial Skill Can Be Learned” Interview With CEU Rector John Shattuck
- 31 Oct 2013 8:00 AM
- business
The President and Rector of Central European University (CEU) considers his current post the most important stage of his career. As he told us, CEU has been successful in attracting back to Budapest leading Hungarian academics who had earlier left the country to pursue their careers abroad. Interview published by Figyelő, the Hungarian business and news weekly, with a circulation of 11.200.
Challenging Disability & Ethnicity Discrimination In Education Across C.E. Europe
- 26 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"Today, the New York Times published a letter by Dezideriu Gergely (Executive Director of the European Roma Rights Centre) and myself. It concerns the discrimination in education faced by Roma children and children with disabilities in central and eastern Europe." By Oliver Lewis, Executive Director, Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Budapest. Oliver tweets @olewis75. This article was first ...
Xpat Interview: Oliver Lewis, Executive Director, Mental Disability Advocacy Center
- 17 Apr 2013 12:00 PM
As a child, Oliver spent time hanging around people with intellectual disabilities in Bristol, England. His mother, a Budapest-born doctor, worked in a “hospital” where people with intellectual disabilities lived. She used to take Oliver to the institution during the summer holidays when no child-minder was available. The hospital has since closed down and the “patients” are now “people” living ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's New Border Regime Threatens Asylum Seekers
- 21 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Press Release: Hungary’s new border regime denies access to asylum and exposes vulnerable people to violence and prosecution, Human Rights Watch said today. Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants have been trapped in Serbia as a result of the de facto closure of the Hungarian border since September 15, 2015, when a new border regime came into force and a border fence was completed.
Hungary: Abysmal Conditions in Border Detention
- 11 Sep 2015 11:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants and asylum seekers are being held in abysmal conditions in the two Roszke migrant detention centers on the Serbian border, Human Rights Watch said today after obtaining footage from inside the camp and interviewing persons currently and formerly detained there. Hungarian police intercept asylum seekers and migrants entering via Serbia and detain them for days for registration and ...
Dispatches: Stranded In Budapest’s Train Station
- 4 Sep 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
By Lydia Gall: “Why are they lying to us? Why did police tell me that the train will go to Germany when it will really go to [a] camp?” asked Mohammed, 34, from Syria, when I told him that the train he was about to board this morning was not heading to Austria and Germany but to a processing center outside Budapest.
Hungary: Ideal Gateway For West-Bound Asylum-Seekers
- 9 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
By mid-February 2015 more asylum-seekers had entered Hungary than the whole of the European Union by late March 2014. Where are they coming from? Of all the countries of the European Union, why are they converging on Hungary? Why is this country a prime destination for Kosovars? Why is the ostensibly impenetrable Schengen frontier full of holes?
Hungary: Loving It, Leaving It
- 23 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
By David Landry: When I first came here, local folks mostly asked me “Why Hungary?” Now when I tell them I’m leaving, they say “It’s a good time.” So what has happened in the past 19 years?
A Turn To The Right In Hungary - An Analysis Of The 2010-2014 Period
- 11 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Conflicts with Brussels, utility cost cuts, symbolic debates. Just about every conflict of the past four years Viktor Orbán's administration went into was because of sovereignty and the shaping of a new framework for its interpretation. When did the cabinet have to retreat and when did the EU acknowledge that the rebellious Hungarian government was right?
“Enterpreneurial Skill Can Be Learned” Interview With CEU Rector John Shattuck
- 31 Oct 2013 8:00 AM
- business
The President and Rector of Central European University (CEU) considers his current post the most important stage of his career. As he told us, CEU has been successful in attracting back to Budapest leading Hungarian academics who had earlier left the country to pursue their careers abroad. Interview published by Figyelő, the Hungarian business and news weekly, with a circulation of 11.200.
Challenging Disability & Ethnicity Discrimination In Education Across C.E. Europe
- 26 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"Today, the New York Times published a letter by Dezideriu Gergely (Executive Director of the European Roma Rights Centre) and myself. It concerns the discrimination in education faced by Roma children and children with disabilities in central and eastern Europe." By Oliver Lewis, Executive Director, Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Budapest. Oliver tweets @olewis75. This article was first ...
Xpat Interview: Oliver Lewis, Executive Director, Mental Disability Advocacy Center
- 17 Apr 2013 12:00 PM
As a child, Oliver spent time hanging around people with intellectual disabilities in Bristol, England. His mother, a Budapest-born doctor, worked in a “hospital” where people with intellectual disabilities lived. She used to take Oliver to the institution during the summer holidays when no child-minder was available. The hospital has since closed down and the “patients” are now “people” living ...