Hungary, as a member of the EU and NATO, is part of the developed world, and therefore is obliged to contribute to solving global problems, - stated Szabolcs Takács, the Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Corvinus University on October 24.
A call for nominations for the 2012 Nationalities Award is announced by the Office of the Minister of State for Church, Civil Society and Nationality Affairs at the Ministry of Human Resources.
It should become an endeavour shared by all that no one should ever again be discriminated, abused or killed because of their race or religion, Minister of the Interior Sandor Pinter said at an awarding ceremony of the Righteous among the Nations and the For Courage honours of the Jerusalem-based Yad Vashem Institute in Budapest on Thursday.
Connected to the new EU Anti-Trafficking Day (18 October) the Ministry of Interior launches a new Facebook site entitled Anti-Human Trafficking Hungary.
Various programs have been launched during the last two years of government measures aimed at building an economy based on work and reducing poverty.
At a press conference linked to a presentation of the social land programme, human resources minister Zoltán Balog said that the social programme is a means of enabling those in extreme poverty to improve their situations.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary has launched a series of international human rights conferences to be held annually under the name of “Budapest Human Rights Forum”.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recently published a note on asylum seekers who entered Hungary through Serbia, subsequently left Hungary after having applied for asylum there and afterwards were sent back to Hungary from another EU Member State via the so-called “Dublin procedure”.
The Government is providing HUF 183 million for Sure Start children’s centres, which for the first time will be funded from the central budget. These institutions are of key importance to the creation of opportunity among young children. As a result of the funding, around 600 children and their parents can continue to use the services of Sure Start children’s centres in their settlements, and the centres are guaranteed to continue in operation until 31 December 2012.
Péter Kovács, Deputy State Secretary for Water Management has informed the Special Rapporteur of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about the details of the red sludge catastrophe of 2010, the rescue operations, the damage control and the legal modifications adopted since then.