In Sátoraljaújhely, during the May 2010 floods, the local government transported sand to the Roma district only when the river began receding. Until then, they did not receive any aid.
The HCLU has received information from several flooded northeastern settlements of Hungary, that in the Roma-inhabited parts of town, help came too late or not at all. This happened in Sáta as well.
There was a clash in Sajóbábony on November 15, 2009, between Roma people and people wearing the uniform of the disbanded Hungarian Guard. In this video we can learn about the events from the point of view of a local Roma young man.
More than 100 organizations from 23 European countries last week asked EU Commissioners Malmström, Reding and Kroes in a joint letter to “propose the repeal of the EU requirements regarding data retention in favor of a system of expedited preservation and targeted collection of traffic data".
The legal regulation of marijuana is not sci-fi any more: the potential models of legalization are here. Watch HCLU's new video on harborside, an outstanding medical marijuana center in Oakland, California.
HCLU (Hungarian Civil Liberties Union) and ERRC (European Roma Rights Center) have called into account Máté Szabó, Parliamentary Commissioner of Civil Rights in Hungary, with a corporate submission in order to conduct an investigation, and gain an explanation as to why people living in abject poverty are being evicted from local governments’ tenements- the equivalent of making them homeless. Specialists of HCLU Roma Programme, doing fieldwork in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplém county (Hungary), have received numerous annunciations from Roma families who had been evicted or were on the verge of being evicted by the local governments.
Венгерский Союз Гражданских Свобод (HCLU) представляет полные версии трёх презентаций международных и российских экспертов в сфере правового анализа недоступности метадона в России, представленных на Московской конференции по вопросам ВИЧ/СПИДа в 2009 году. / The HCLU presents three uncut presentations from the 2009 Moscow AIDS conference by international and Russian experts on the legal analysis of the unavailability of methadone in Russia.
Russia is under strong international pressure to introduce opiate substitution treatment - watch our video and take action!
Some of Hungary's major anti-corruption NGOs have turned to EU Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia. The NGOs are concerned about a giant project financed with state aid and therefore urged the Prime Minister to immediately suspend the 'murky' 130 mn EUR investment, financed by an EU fund and the Hungarian Development Bank (MFB). Gordon Bajnai, Prime Minister of Hungary finally ordered the Ministry of National Development and Economy to make the feasibility study of the project public.
Needle exchange programs in the US - watch our movie to learn how harm reduction protects communities from death and disease!
HCLU presents the results of its video advocacy work in 2009, in a new report published today.