Press releases

In his report No. AJB-1665/2023 of 17 April 2023 on the legal criteria of using the family housing allowance (CSOK), the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary drew attention to that the CSOK decrees require the existence of a social insurance legal relationship as a prerequisite for using the allowance as a general rule.

Hungarian citizens have turned to Dr. Ákos Kozma, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary, about the the closure of the road connecting the villages of Somfalva (Schattendorf) and Ágfalva.

Commissioner for Fundamental Rights Dr. Ákos Kozma and Ombudsman for Future Generations Dr. Gyula Bándi called attention to the importance of the implementation of the global goals for the protection of biodiversity on the national level and on the need for active action on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity.

At the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, the administrative recess ordered on the basis of Government Decree No. 460/2022 (10 November) on the emergency rules applicable to administrative recesses in special status bodies and municipal boards lasts from 22 December 2022 to 6 January 2023.

Not even in hard times, at the time of economic, social or humanitarian crises can one forget that the state has fundamental and active obligations in ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities. In the area of the protection of rights, the non-derogation principle and allowing progress are not simply expectations “merely” from the side of persons with disabilities but they are obvious interests of the society as a whole, as is pointed out by the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary. Ombudsman Dr. Ákos Kozma thinks that the state should find a solution, with the genuine involvement of those concerned, to how the currently available resources and options can be used and utilized the most efficiently.

At the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, the administrative recess ordered on the basis of Government Decree No. 460/2022 (10 November) on the emergency rules applicable to administrative recesses in special status bodies and municipal boards lasts from 22 December 2022 to 6 January 2023.

“It is at both hard and imperative to celebrate the rights of the child when there is a war raging next to us, whose victims are not only the affected children but also, childhood itself”, Ombudsman Dr. Ákos Kozma reminds us on World Children’s Day. The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary thinks that the pandemic, the ensuing economic problems and the war, as well as the climate change pose enormous challenges to the states and families as they are but in the meantime, we should not forget to give our children not only security but also, a real childhood.

Dr. Ákos Kozma, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary and Dr. Gyula Bándi, Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Ombudsman for Future Generations call for joint action in a statement on World Environment Day.

Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Dr. Gyula Bándi, Deputy Commissioner for the Interests of Future Generations call attention to the importance of the protection of all forms of life on Earth in their joint statement issued on the occasion of Earth Day.

Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Dr. Gyula Bándi, Deputy Commissioner for the Interests of Future Generations call attention to the importance of the protection of groundwater in their joint statement issued on the occasion of World Water Day.

Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Dr. Gyula Bándi, Deputy Commissioner for the Interests of Future Generations call attention to the importance of sustainable forest management in their joint statement issued on the International Day of Forests.

As parliamentary elections are drawing closer in Hungary, certain increasingly sharp statements that threaten democracy and constitutional order in Hungary have compelled the leaders of fundamental institutions safeguarding the operation and protection of the rule of law to take a firm stand on these matters.