inclusive education

Hungary: human rights NGOs demand consultation

23 September 2011

23 September 2011. Human rights organisations are calling on the Hungarian government to consult civil society in relation to the effective implementation of the recommendations formulated by the UN Human Rights Council during Hungary’s Universal Periodic Review.

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Hungary, advocacy, political participation, inclusive education, legal capacity, community living, access to justice, freedom from ill-treatment

Right to education for all: historic and holistic recommendations

30 June 2011

Budapest, 23 June 2011. In observations published this week, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on the Czech Republic to end “systematic and unlawful” segregation and discrimination directed against Roma children, and “de facto exclusion” of children with disabilities from mainstream education.

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advocacy, Czech Republic, inclusive education

MDAC welcomes European Union ratification of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

10 January 2011

10 January 2011, Budapest. The Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC) welcomes the European Union's 23 December 2010 ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This step binds the EU institutions - the Commission, Parliament, Council and Court of Justice - to uphold the rights of persons with disabilities.

 

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advocacy, legal capacity, community living, inclusive education, access to justice, political participation

Hungary: CRPD shadow report and executive summary available in English and Hungarian

3 September 2010
NGOs in Hungary have produced a shadow report which looks in detail at the level of CRPD implementation in the country. The 254-page report entitled ‘Rights of Persons with Disabilities or Disabling Rights?’ was launched at a public event in Budapest, Hungary, on 10 August 2010.
 
The report contains recommendations to the Hungarian government, including
 
  • Providing supported decision-making for the approximately 80,000 people under guardianship;
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advocacy, legal capacity, community living, inclusive education, access to justice, political participation, ill-treatment, research, Hungary

Constitutional Court Undermines Legal Status of Hungarians with Disabilities

27 April 2010

27 April 2010, Budapest, Hungary. Yesterday the Hungarian Constitutional Court shattered hopes that Hungary would reform its guardianship laws, jeopardizing the rights of 80,000 people with disabilities under guardianship.

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advocacy, legal capacity, inclusive education, access to justice, political participation, ill-treatment, Hungary

MDAC launches project focusing on monitoring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

1 April 2010

1 April 2010. Today MDAC launched a one-year initiative in which it will seek to provide guidance to governments and NGOs on the effective implementation of Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the provision which focuses on domestic implementation of the Convention.

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advocacy, legal capacity, community living, inclusive education, access to justice, ill-treatment, research, poltical participation