HUNGARY
Central European University –
CEU
Constitutional and Legal
Policy Institute - COLPI
European Roma Rights Center – ERRC
Hungarian Centre for Human Rights
Hungarian Helsinki Committee
Institute of Economics (Budapest)
Institute for Legal and
Administrative Sciences (Budapest)
Institute of Sociology (Budapest)
Korridor Politikai Kutatasi Központ
Legal
Defence Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities – NEKI
Local Government
and Public Service Reform Initiative - LGI
Magyar Tudomanyos
Akademia – Politika Tudomanyi Intezet
Minoritas Foundation
Office for National and Ethnic
Minorities
Office
of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities
Roma Participation Program
Roma Press Center – RPC
Szazadveg Politikai
Iskola/Millenium Political School
Teleki László Foundation
Unesco Minority Studies
Department – ELTE
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY – CEU
Nador u. 9, 1051 Budapest
Tel.: ++36 1 327 3000
Fax: ++36 1 327 3001
E-mail: external@ceu.hu
Website: www.ceu.hu
Pro-Rector: Laszlo Bruszt
Departments offer various courses, including:
Department of History: Nations and Minorities in European History, Nationalism and
Prejudice in East-Central Europe: the Social History of Jewry and the Holocaust,
East-Central Europe in the 20th century: Symbolic Geography and Social Identity in
East-Central Europe, Tolerance and Intolerance in Multi-Religious Communities.
E-mail: History@ceu.hu
Department of Legal Studies: Human Rights, Minorities, Human Rights Clinic, Freedom
of Religion.
E-mail: Legalst@ceu.hu
Department of Sociology: Culture and Nationalism, Civil Society, Pluralism and the
Accommodation of Difference.
E-mail: Css@ceu.edu.pl
Forced Migration Projects: The projects, in collaboration with OSI New York,
consist of action-oriented programmes that monitor circumstances in the countries that
have emerged or re-emerged after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in order to give
early warning of forced movements and to identify conditions that may cause such
dislocations, including armed conflict, human rights violations, economic
underdevelopment, environmental degradation and other failures of governance.
Website for FMP: www.osi.hu/fmp/fmp2/index.html
Centre for the Study of Nationalism: The Centre is engaged in the following projects:
‘Dominant Minorities’, ‘The role of Germany in Central and Eastern Europe
and the role of Germans’, The role of border areas’, ‘The Caucasus’,
‘Czech-Slovac relations’.
E-mail: Ryderm@ceu.hu
CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL
POLICY INSTITUTE - COLPI
Nádor u. 11, 4th floor, 1051 Budapest
Tel.: ++36 1 3273102
Fax: ++36 1 3273103
E-mail: colpi@osi.hu
Website: www.osi.hu/colpi
COLPI’s principal aim is to contribute to the development of open societies in Central and Eastern Europe, central Asia and Mongolia, through legal reform and support of basic rights and modern democratic institutions. An important aspect of this is to develop and strengthen the legal programmes within the various Soros foundations.
COLPI’s activities are primarily designed to assist in the development of the legal infrastructure within these countries, including: legislation; the judiciary; prosecutors; legal aid actors; penitentiary system; psychiatric hospitals; the media; democratic armed forces; legal education systems. COLPI deals with human rights and freedoms issues, rule of law, democracy and the protection of national minorities, with emphasis on projects concerning the weaker groups within society, for example, the mentally ill, children, ethnic minorities, detainees, women. COLPI’s activities are divided into three categories: legal education; human rights, rule of law and democracy; criminal justice and the judiciary.
EUROPEAN ROMA RIGHTS CENTER – ERRC
H-1525 Budapest 114, PO Box 10/24
Tel.: ++36 1 4282351
Fax: ++36 1 4282356
E-mail: gandi@errc.org
Website: http://errc.org
Executive Director: Dimitrina Petrova
ERRC is an international law organisation which monitors the situation of Roma in Europe.
ERRC’s main activities include: monitoring human rights; publishing; legal defence for Roma; legal research; conducting seminars; advocating Roma rights; maintaining a documentation centre; awarding grants to Roma NGOs that defend Roma rights; offering scholarships to Romani students of law and public administration.
HUNGARIAN CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Orszaghaz u. 30, PO Box 25, H-1014 Budapest
Tel.: ++36 1 175 9337
Fax: ++36 1 175 7858
Director: H. Bokor-Szegö
The Centre carries out research on various aspects of human rights especially from the perspective of international law and the elaboration of a new constitution. Current research projects are: ‘Economic, social and cultural rights’, ‘State succession in treaties relating to human rights’, ‘Human rights protection in the European Union’, ‘European Convention on Human Rights and the Hungarian legal system’, ‘Rights of the child’, ‘Protection of minority rights in Hungary’, ‘International human rights protection and domestic law: national and international remedies’, ‘Right to education’.
The Centre’s activities also include training, documentation/information, organisation of conferences and international co-operation programmes. The Centre publishes the journal Acta Humana (quarterly).
HUNGARIAN
HELSINKI COMMITTEE
Jozsef korut 34, I./5, 1085 Budapest
Mailling address: 1428 Budapest PO Box 40
Tel.: ++36 1 3344575
Fax: ++36 1 3140885
E-mail: helsinki@c3.hu
Website: www.ihf-hr.org/hunhc.htm
Director: Ferenc Koszeg
The Institute is carrying out research on Roma people in the labour market.
INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL AND
ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
Department of International Law, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
PO Box 25, Orszaghaz u. 30, H-1250 Budapest
Tel.: ++36 1 155 7384
Fax: ++36 1 1757 858
Website: www.mta.hu
Director: Prof. dr. V. Lamm
The Institute carries out research on the international human rights convention, and domestic and international law. Its current research is ‘The European Convention of Human Rights and its national implementation’. Its activities also include documentation/information, conference organisation, publications, an international co-operation programme, and a course: Basic Issues on Human Rights.
INSTITUTE
OF SOCIOLOGY
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1014 Budapest, Uri u. 49
1250 Budapest, PO Box 20
Tel.: ++36 1 2240786
Fax: ++36 1 2240790
Director: Tamás Pál
KORRIDOR POLITIKAI KUTATASI KÖZPONT
Felhevizi ut 24, 1023 Budapest
Tel.: ++36 1 335 0805/0830/0831/0832
Fax: ++36 1 335 0828
Website: www.pukrt.hu/indang.htm
Director: Dr. István Csillag
The Korridor Centre for Political Research was established in 1993 by Financial Research Ltd with the support of the Soros Foundation and other sponsors. Its members are independent professionals (politologists, sociologists, economists) who work on political and economic problems in Hungary and East European countries.
LEGAL DEFENCE
BUREAU FOR NATIONAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES – NEKI
MÁSSÁG ("otherness") Foundation
H-1537 Budapest 114, PO Box 453/269
Tel./Fax: ++36 1 3221491/3518693
E-mail: viszlo@alarmix.net
Website: www.romapage.c3.hu/engmas.htm
Director: Furman Imre
The Foundation, founded in 1994, seeks to protect the rights of minorities, specifically Roma, who have suffered discrimination on the grounds of their ethnic origin.
The principal activity of the foundation is to provide legal assistance to minorities. Other activities include documentation, monitoring of the press, conferences and courses, lectures, seminars and co-operation with other human rights organisations.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM INITIATIVE - LGI
PO Box 10/27, 1525 Budapest 114
Tel.: ++36 1 3273104
Fax: ++36 1 3273105
E-mail: lgprog@osi.hu
Website: www.osi.hu/lgi
LGI was launched in January 1997 by the Board of the Open Society Institute, Budapest, to replace the Institute of Local Government and Public Service.
The main aim of LGI is the forging of sustainable regional networks of specialists and institutions involved in the study and reform of local government, in order that countries can share expertise to contribute significantly to the reform process in the region.
MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS
AKADEMIA – POLITIKA TUDOMANYI INTEZET
V. Benczur u. 33, H-1068 Budapest
Tel.: ++ 36 1 3214830/3429372
Fax: ++ 36 1 3221843
Director: Jozsef Bayer
MINORITAS FOUNDATION
Institute of Sociology
Pollack Mihaly ter 10, H-1085 Budapest
Tel.: ++36 1 2665222
Fax: ++36 1 2663860
Contact: Orkeny Antal
OFFICE FOR NATIONAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES
Website: www.meh.hu/nekh
OFFICE
OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR THE RIGHTS OF NATIONAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES
Website: www.obh.hu/nekh/angol.ver
ROMA PARTICIPATION PROGRAM
Mailling address: H-1051 Budapest 114, PO Box 10/25
Website: www.osi.hu/roma
The RPP’s stated aim is to work to help Roma help themselves in the struggle for greater integration into the societies of the countries in which they live.
RPP main activities include: giving grants to new Romani NGO’s, to enable grassroots community development in areas where Roma live in high concentration; organising work/study placements for young Roma; computers and internet access for Romani media to facilitate improved journalistic research and information-sharing; funding for a Center for Independent Journalism project in which young Roma are trained to be journalists.
RPC is a non governmental, non-profit-making news agency, established in December 1995 to provide balanced coverage on Roma issues for the printed mainstream media in Hungary. RPC aims to increase public awareness of issues and problems of the Roma community and to influence public discourse.
RPC’s primary activity is to provide daily printed information on Roma issues, for publication in mainstream media. Its other activities include: developing training programmes on media relations; a journalism training programme for young Roma; increasing links with broadcast media, especially radio stations; international information exchange with correspondents in other countries in the region, and foreign journalists accredited in Hungary.
SZAZADVEG POLITIKAI
ISKOLA/MILLENIUM POLITICAL SCHOOL
TELEKI LÁSZLÓ FOUNDATION
Institute of Central Europe
1125 Budapest, Szilágyi Erzsébet Fasor 22/C
Tel.: ++36 1 2752500
Fax: ++36 1 2752501
E-mail: Teleki-Found@tla.hu
Website: www.tla.hu
President: Domokos Kosáry
The Foundation, established by the Hungarian government in 1991, seeks to form a scientific basis for international relations and to promote the Institute of Central Europe. The aim of the Foundation is to establish a scientific basis for international relations by analysing world and European integration tendencies, and examines diplomatic, security and foreign policy relations of the East-Central European region. It is hoped that this will reveal opportunities for international co-operation toward the improvement of human rights for the ethnic, language and religious minorities of the region.
The Foundation’s main activities are: conference/programme organisation; publications; political analysis leading to long and short-term forecasts; organisation of study tours; co-operation with international research groups, individuals and organisations; participation in higher and postgraduate education.
UNESCO MINORITY STUDIES
DEPARTMENT – ELTE
The Institute of Sociology and Social Policy organises courses on basic issues of interethnic relations and minorities. Students are also introduced to basic skills which are necessary to intervene in inter-group conflicts that can occur in ethnic communities, urban neighbourhoods, industrial workplaces, political organisations, trade unions, and the mass-media. The Masters programme in Sociology in Ethnic and Minority Studies aims to: a. provide a systematic study of intererethnic relations, minority problems and processes in post-communist societies within a comparative perspective; b. train future policy-makers or expert advisers in issues and conflicts between regions, nations, ethnic groups, minorities and majorities in various parts of Europe; c. train future scholars in sociology, socio-cultural anthropology, political and ethnic studies and social psychology, to carry out research in Eastern Europe.
The Institute’s programme also offers field trips to Eastern European regions where co-existence between ethnic groups can be observed.