Office of the commissioner for fundamental rights of hungary

Ombudsman Dr. Ákos Kozma reported on the activities performed by the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary and his deputies in 2021 to the National Assembly at its session on 5 October 2022.

At the discussion of the report on the activities performed by the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary and his deputies in 2021, Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Ombudsman for the Rights of National Minorities Dr. Elisabeth Sándor-Szalay and Deputy-Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Ombudsman for Future Generations Dr. Gyula Bándi also
took part. 

Among others, Dr. Ákos Kozma said the following in his introduction, in the general debate at the National Assembly: “In 2021, the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights issued a report containing as many as 147 recommendations, in which a total of 260 recommendations were formulated. 7354 petitions were filed to our Office, of which 5995 cases were concluded and closed in 2021. The increase in the number of cases is also caused by the extra competences and responsibilities that the ombudsman institution was entrusted with by the legislator in the past few years. However, these data also suggest that the activities of the Office are still widely trusted.”

The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights added that this very fruitful series of countrywide visits that he started in the spring of 2020 were continued in 2021 as well. In the period between 1 January and 31 December last year, a total of 86 sites, including residential social care institutions, penitentiary institutions, children’s homes, and special children’s homes were visited by the Commissioner and his staff, and they issued reports on their findings in each case.