117 result(s) for minors
COE Delegation Inspects Hungary Transit Zones
- 6 Jul 2017 8:42 AM
- current affairs
A Council of Europe delegation has arrived in Hungary to inspect the living conditions of 14-18 year-old migrants in Hungary’s transit zones near the southern border towns of Röszke and Tompa. Claude Janizzi, who heads the CoE’s Lanzarote Committee and is in charge of the delegation, told a press conference on Wednesday that the delegation had been invited by the Hungarian government to verify ...
Dialogue Party Opposes Planned Closure Of Fót Orphanage
- 16 May 2017 11:00 AM
- current affairs
The co-leader of the opposition Dialogue party called on the government on Monday to abandon plans to close the children’s home in Fót while placing minors in facilities in other cities with poorer conditions.
Govt To Continue Revamping Foster-Care System
- 10 Apr 2017 10:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s government will implement further measures as part of an overall revamp of the country’s foster care system, the human resources ministry said on Friday. The aim of the restructuring is to part with the old system rooting in the idea adopted in the 1950s that abandoned children should be catered for separately from society, in state-run foster centres, the ministry said in a statement.
Orbán’s Advisor: Public Survey Needed Because Brussels, Budapest Disagree On Migration
- 10 Apr 2017 1:00 AM
- current affairs
The prime minister’s security advisor has said Hungary’s forthcoming national consultation, a survey of citizens on a range of issues including mass illegal migration, is necessary because the public will have the chance to give their opinion on the government’s migration policy and signal its opposition to demands made by Brussels.
Strasbourg Court Bans Hungary From Confining Eight Migrants
- 29 Mar 2017 10:10 AM
- current affairs
The European Court of Human Rights has banned Hungarian authorities from transferring eight teenagers and a pregnant woman from a refugee asylum near Budapest to the transit zone along the Hungary-Serbia border “to be detained”, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee reported on Tuesday.
Identification Of Bus Accident Victims Could Take Several Days
- 23 Jan 2017 3:00 AM
- current affairs
On Sunday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference that “the identities of the 16 dead and two critically injured victims of Friday’s bus crash in Verona have yet to be determined”.
COE Report Shows Instances Of Illtreatment Of Asylum - Seekers
- 4 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A majority of detained foreign nationals interviewed by a delegation of the Council of Europe said that they had been treated correctly by the authorities but a considerable number claimed that they had been subjected to physical ill-treatment by police officers, the CoE’s anti-torture committee (CPT) said in its latest report.
Xpat Opinion: Comments In Hungarian Media On Clearing Of Calais ‘Jungle’
- 26 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators approve the decision to dismantle the refugee camp in Calais after almost two years of scandalous existence, but regard it as just a symptom of a larger problem.
Migrants Smuggled From Orphanage To W Europe
- 5 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
People smugglers are running an organised operation to transport unaccompanied minors from a centre for children in Fót, near Budapest, to western Europe, human resources ministry state secretary Bence Rétvári has said. In the past 12 months, some 3,500 young migrants were provided shelter in Fót after declaring they were minors, even though they carried no documents to prove this, Rétvári told ...
COE Delegation Inspects Hungary Transit Zones
- 6 Jul 2017 8:42 AM
- current affairs
A Council of Europe delegation has arrived in Hungary to inspect the living conditions of 14-18 year-old migrants in Hungary’s transit zones near the southern border towns of Röszke and Tompa. Claude Janizzi, who heads the CoE’s Lanzarote Committee and is in charge of the delegation, told a press conference on Wednesday that the delegation had been invited by the Hungarian government to verify ...
Dialogue Party Opposes Planned Closure Of Fót Orphanage
- 16 May 2017 11:00 AM
- current affairs
The co-leader of the opposition Dialogue party called on the government on Monday to abandon plans to close the children’s home in Fót while placing minors in facilities in other cities with poorer conditions.
Govt To Continue Revamping Foster-Care System
- 10 Apr 2017 10:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s government will implement further measures as part of an overall revamp of the country’s foster care system, the human resources ministry said on Friday. The aim of the restructuring is to part with the old system rooting in the idea adopted in the 1950s that abandoned children should be catered for separately from society, in state-run foster centres, the ministry said in a statement.
Orbán’s Advisor: Public Survey Needed Because Brussels, Budapest Disagree On Migration
- 10 Apr 2017 1:00 AM
- current affairs
The prime minister’s security advisor has said Hungary’s forthcoming national consultation, a survey of citizens on a range of issues including mass illegal migration, is necessary because the public will have the chance to give their opinion on the government’s migration policy and signal its opposition to demands made by Brussels.
Strasbourg Court Bans Hungary From Confining Eight Migrants
- 29 Mar 2017 10:10 AM
- current affairs
The European Court of Human Rights has banned Hungarian authorities from transferring eight teenagers and a pregnant woman from a refugee asylum near Budapest to the transit zone along the Hungary-Serbia border “to be detained”, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee reported on Tuesday.
Identification Of Bus Accident Victims Could Take Several Days
- 23 Jan 2017 3:00 AM
- current affairs
On Sunday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference that “the identities of the 16 dead and two critically injured victims of Friday’s bus crash in Verona have yet to be determined”.
COE Report Shows Instances Of Illtreatment Of Asylum - Seekers
- 4 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A majority of detained foreign nationals interviewed by a delegation of the Council of Europe said that they had been treated correctly by the authorities but a considerable number claimed that they had been subjected to physical ill-treatment by police officers, the CoE’s anti-torture committee (CPT) said in its latest report.
Xpat Opinion: Comments In Hungarian Media On Clearing Of Calais ‘Jungle’
- 26 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators approve the decision to dismantle the refugee camp in Calais after almost two years of scandalous existence, but regard it as just a symptom of a larger problem.
Migrants Smuggled From Orphanage To W Europe
- 5 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
People smugglers are running an organised operation to transport unaccompanied minors from a centre for children in Fót, near Budapest, to western Europe, human resources ministry state secretary Bence Rétvári has said. In the past 12 months, some 3,500 young migrants were provided shelter in Fót after declaring they were minors, even though they carried no documents to prove this, Rétvári told ...