Watch the video filmed at our demonstration & press conference in Vienna

Participants will include NGOs, working in the field of HIV/AIDS and patients’ rights, patients’ organizations, patients’ rights representatives and MEPs or health politicians from national parliaments/ministries. The meeting will be conducted in English.

Background of the meeting:
On 2 July, 2008 the Council accepted a proposal for the directive on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border health care. The proposal is mainly about the possibility of the use of healthcare in another member state and the rules of the refunding of the expenses paid for these services. However, the directive does not command about the way patients’ rights, which are secured in different ways and to different extents in different member states, prevail in case of health services used in another member state. At the same time the directive tasks the member states to provide the possibility of the use of plaint and remedy in case the patient is done a disservice during health care. The Council will also work out directives with the member states about the different questions arising in connection with cross-border health care.

The aim of the workshop is to formulate principals that could be used by national governments and also the European Council when working out directives.

The participants will have the chance to exchange experience in the three topics of the workshops and find best and worst practises in the Member States involved. After the meeting a joint level statement will be published about the minimum standards concerning patients’ rights in cross-border health care which can be communicated towards national governments. The aim of the minimum standards is to contribute to the above mentioned directives. After the implementation of the directive, regular annual or semi-annual meetings would be organized to report on practises, and how these minimum standards are being added to the national directives.

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has collected the voices of drug users, scientists and activist from all around the globe. They are sending their messages to the participants of the United Nations meeting on drugs. What would you tell the delegates to do? How would you change global drug policies?
21 videos already up, and we upload one more each day until the meeting!

The Court of Appeal declared in its final judgment on the 21th of January 2009, that the minutes of the government meetings are data of public interest. Unfortunately, much information won’t be available for the public.

An HCLU film about drug tourism in the Netherlands: is it really only the problem of the Dutch?

The Hungarian Constitutional Court declared several rules of the act regulating the criminal registry (hereinafter: CRA) unconstitutional. The Court nullified rules on the temporal scope of the registry, on data transfer from the registry and on rules of dactyloscopic and photo registry.