Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union is a human rights NGO. Since our foundation in 1994, we have been working for everybody being informed about their fundamental human rights and empowered to enforce it against the undue interference by those in position of public power.

our focus areas & news

Mike Trace - does the criminalization of drug users work?

Mike Trace is currently the Co-Director of the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme and Chief Executive at RAPT (Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust), one of the UK's foremost providers of drug addiction treatment.

Ethan Nadelmann - to protect the kids?

Ethan Nadelmann is the executive director of the largest drug policy reform organization in the U.S., the Drug Policy Alliance (www.drugpolicy.org ). Earlier he was a professor at the Princeton University. We interviewed him at the International Harm Reduction Conference, Warsaw, 2007.

Mauro Guarinieri - connect drug users to society

Mauro is a well-known Italian AIDS activist who previously worked as a chair of GNP+, an advocate group, and recently works for the International Harm Reduction Development Program of the Open Society Institute. He is a former injecting drug user and he lives with HIV/AIDS.He was interviewed by our crew at the International Conference on the Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, 2007.

Anya Sarang - a lesson to learn

Anya Sarang is a founding member of the Russian Harm Reduction Network - an organization promoting harm reduction in the Russian Federation.
Interviewed at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms, Warsaw, 2007.

Bijan Nassirimanesh - not to judge people

Dr. Bijan Nassirimanesh is a medical doctor, one of the founders of Persepolis, the first NGO providing needle exchange service in Iran. We interviewed him at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, 2007.

Allan Clear - what is harm reduction?

Allan Clear is the executive director of the New York based Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC, www.harmreduction.org).He was interviewed by our activists at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, 2007.