Child Rights Report – 2022

There is less and less data and the outlook is increasingly bleak.

What happened in 2022?

Protests against the current state of the public education system took place in more than 1000 institutions across at least 310 municipalities in Hungary. Without a doubt, this was the most spectacular series of events in child rights in 2022. The emergence of student protests and movements raised several issues. We wrote about these in our report. We also wrote about many other topics: from the situation of refugee children from Ukraine to the prevalence of underage drinking, and about the decline in the number of children.

For years we have been writing in this foreword about the fact that we are forced to work with less and less data and information. Last year, not only have official sources almost completely dried up, but it is also striking how much less research, studies and specialist material has been produced on child rights issues.

Take a look at the 2022 report

The future is created now and we are its architects. After all, today’s children are tomorrow’s adults. In 2022, they were subject to an extraordinary number of experiences and influences, which may accompany them for the rest of their lives. Not to mention that in many ways 2022 didn’t bring anything new in Hungary, it simply revealed the culmination of the negative trends of the last few years (at times several decades). While the causes and contributing factors are a thing of the past or are only just coming to a head after years of delay, we are only now facing the consequences.