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    • Hungarians in Slovakia

      According to the 2021 census, the Hungarian population in Slovakia numbers 456,154 individuals, representing 8.4% of the country’s total population. Of these, 422,065 people identified Hungarian as their primary ethnicity,...

      Author: Tárnok Balázs

    • HUNINEU – Foundation for the European Representation of Hungarian National Communities

      HUNINEU – Foundation for the European Representation of Hungarian National Communities is an organization created by parties represented in the parliament of Hungary for the purpose of adequately informing the...

      Author: Tárnok Balázs

    • Illyés Public Foundation (Illyés Közalapítvány – IKA)

      In order to provide support for Hungarians living beyond the border from the Hungarian state budget the Secretariat of the Ethnic and Nationality College of the Németh government established the...

      Author: Bárdi Nándor

    • Immigrant

      An immigrant is a person who comes from his place of residence to another settlement (internal migration) or to another country (international migration) with the intention of settling or staying...

      Author: Gazsó Dániel

    • Importance of recognizing language rights

      Most of the international documents guaranteeing language rights that are in force today set out from the premise that language (mother tongue, own language, regional/minority language, etc.) as such, or...

      Author: Nagy Noémi

    • indigenous peoples

      The second half of the twentieth century saw a proliferation of initiatives calling for the recognition of indigenous peoples and their rights, separately from minority groups. There is no generally...

      Author: Vizi Balázs

    • individual rights

      Belonging to a national minority is a fundamental right that applies to individuals and communities alike, and must always be interpreted in conjunction with the principle of equal rights and...

      Author: Szalayné Sándor Erzsébet

    • Institute for the Protection of Minority Rights (Kisebbségi Jogvédő Intézet)

      The Institute for the Protection of Minority Rights (Kisebbségi Jogvédő Intézet) is the operational body of the Foundation for the Protection of Minority Rights established in 2012, in Budapest. Since...

      Author: Tárnok Balázs

    • institutional framework for relations with the kin-state (motherland)

      Decisions of kin-state policy are made in the Hungarian Parliament on the one hand, and at Hungarian–Hungarian consultative and decision-making forums on the other. As a consequence of its constitutional...

      Author: Kántor Zoltán

    • INTERCULTURALISM

      The meaning of the word “intercultural” is “between cultures,” referring to interactions, communications, and exchanges of experiences between cultures. Interculturalism denotes a philosophical exchange among different cultural groups or subgroups...

      Author: Palusek Erik

    • International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

      The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is an international treaty adopted by the →United Nations in 1965, which aims to achieve equal treatment...

      Author: Nagy Noémi

    • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Human Rights Committee

      The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is an international treaty adopted by the →United Nations in 1966, which sets out a broad range of first-generation human rights...

      Author: Nagy Noémi

    • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Committee

      The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is an international treaty adopted by the →United Nations in 1966, which sets out a broad range of second-generation human...

      Author: Nagy Noémi

    • international non-governmental organizations working to protect the rights of national minorities in Europe

      There are currently active, private, non-profit civil society organisations, active in at least three countries, which focus exclusively on minority protection, either in general or more narrowly, focusing on only...

      Author: Gyurcsík Iván

    • Isop v. Austria

      The first decision dealing with minoritylanguage rightsbased on the ECHR was delivered by the European Commission of Human Rightsin 1962. Mr Isop, an Austrian citizen of Slovene origin filed a...

      Author: Nagy Noémi

    • Julianus Program

      A Julianus Program célja a diaszpórában lévő magyar emlékek egységes szempontrendszer alapján történő felmérése, ezekhez a széleskörű hozzáférés megteremtése. A program célja, hogy bemutassa a diaszpórában fellelhető magyar értékeket, és...

      Author: Kántor Zoltán

    • Július Pereszlényi – Servis TV-Video v. Slovakia

      Pereszlényi (2021) is very instructive when it comes to the restrictive attitude of the ECtHRin relation to minority language rights, in this case, those of the Hungarian minority. Pursuant to...

      Author: Nagy Noémi

    • kin-state (motherland)

      kin-state (motherland) (motherland) is a state in which the majority of the population forms an ethnic or cultural community with a minority in another country. Its foreign ties also include...

      Author: Bárdi Nándor

    • kin-state policy

      kin-state policy is the Hungarian state’s policy towards Hungarians beyond the borders – in neighbouring countries and in other countries of the world – which strengthens the relationship between the...

      Author: Bárdi Nándor, Kántor Zoltán

    • kin-state policy in the system of priorities of the Antall government (1990-1994)

      The Antall government’s foreign policy was defined by three priorities: 1. Euro-Atlantic integration, 2. putting the neighbourhood policy on a new footing, and 3. representing the interests of Hungarians living...

      Author: Bárdi Nándor

    • Kitok v. Sweden

      In the 1988 Kitok v. Sweden case, the →Human Rights Committee addressed the issue of →belonging to a minority. In a landmark decision, also for the rights of →indigenous peoples,...

      Author: Nagy Noémi

    • Komárno/Komárom Grand Assembly in 1994

      The biggest community and political achievement of Hungarians living in independent Slovakia since 1993 was the “National Grand Assembly of Elected Hungarian Representatives and Mayors in Slovakia”, which took place...

      Author: Gyurcsík Iván

    • Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Program

      The Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Program was launched in 2013 as the first large-scale initiative to specifically target the diaspora. The main aim of the Program is to preserve Hungarian identity,...

      Author: Gazsó Dániel

    • language rights

      The right to use one’s mother tongue is a fundamental human right and as such a matter of priority for the state to regulate. The majority of modern countries are...

      Author: Szalayné Sándor Erzsébet

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