HCLU, Védegylet and Energia Klub has written a letter to Mr. Zoltán Lomnici, Chairman of Supreme Court, we disapproved slowness the judicial proceedings according to the failure of Paks Nuclear Power Plant’s block nr. 2.

Here you can read two of the most funniest stories of HCLU. National Security Officers as postmen? Post-execution? Agent Smith from the feature Matrix would just sway his head, how many software-errors are in the system...

A new draft law titled ‘governmental structure changes related law modifications’ was presented by the Government on 3 Nov, 2006.

On 7 Nov, 2006 the Court of the Capitol obligated the Budapest Police Department (BPD) to let HCLU access the data requested in May, 2004.

The case was started against the Ministry of Finance after it denied access to data on public spending deficit of a hundred billion HUF.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has declared that everyone has the right to access to states’ public interest data. This is the first precedent when an international court admits such a wide range of human rights.

HCLU won the case against the Minister of Justice and Law Enforcement according to the Budapest Capital Court's decision of first instance.

28th September is the ‘Right to Know Day’ in 90 countries around the world. The idea was born on 28 September, 2002, on an international meeting of Freedom of Information organizations in Sofia, Bulgaria. On that day, Freedom of Information Advocates (FOIA) Network was also founded with the aim of promoting the individual right of access to information and open, transparent governance.

The European Committee launched the European Transparency Initiative in November, 2005. Among other organizations, HCLU also expressed its opinion and shared its comments on the green paper being released on this issue.

HCLU filed a case on 4 September against the Ministry of Finance for not releasing information on a billion HUF deficit in the budget of 2006.

A new body established 9th of May 2006 will replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The HCLU has inquired at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the ballots cast by Hungary and the criteria taken into account at the election. As it is known the Council also consist of countries which are responsible for grave human rights violations such as Azerbaijan, China, Cuba, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia.

HCLU and 27 civil organizations from other countries favoured the initiative.