Child Right Reports

What is it like to be a child and raise one in Hungary?

How does child protection work? How are children’s rights upheld? All data, information and study result in one place, collected and delivered by the cooperation of the country’s best professionals.

Reports

We are hoping that the Child Rights Report will increase sensitivity towards children’s rights in Hungary and will assist professionals working in the field of child rights and protection. There are 20,000-30,000 readers of the report each year  and it brings us great joy that it has become part of the curriculum in several university courses since 2019.

How we work?

The Child Rights Report provides an overview of facts, data, statistics and results of studies in Hungary.

 

We collect information during the preparation phase from three areas: we monitor adopted acts and amendments in the given year, professional materials and reports of institutions published throughout the year, and relevant media coverage. We find the latter area especially important because aspects highlighted in the media and public discourse can eventually affect decision makers and may lead to actual legislative changes. The Child Rights Report is made by the professional team of the Hintalovon Child Rights Foundation-ECPAT Hungary and external experts. The proofreading of the drafts is carried out by a team of ten members including university teachers and professionals from both non-governmental and governmental institutions.

 

Since 2021, the reports include the opinions of the foundation’s Kid Colleagues. The Child Rights Report is available both in English and in Hungarian. 

Read our Reports!

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

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he Child Rights Repost is worth reading. Because it organizes and scrutinizes all significant child rights events of the year, categorized by key child rights focus areas. Because it provides a professionally credible perspective while clearly demonstrating a commitment to children and their rights. Because it does not judge but instead offers insight, places events in context, and persistently balances thoroughness with accessibility.

Because it naturally adopts the child’s perspective and values children’s participation. Because it sees the inclusion of diverse viewpoints and debates as self-evident.

The Child Rights Report serves as a reference point worth revisiting, whether as a professional or as an interested reader. It inspires further reading and deeper reflection. And it does this exceptionally well.

Attila Lápossy Dr.

lecturer, ELTE Faculty of Law

Child rights are more vulnerable than human rights in general. This makes it especially important for the Hintalovon Foundation to provide yearly updates—particularly targeting professionals and policymakers—on the state of children’s rights and the structural actions needed to eliminate the violations children face. These include addressing violence, deprivation, neglect, various forms of abuse, exclusion, and discrimination.
Ágnes Darvas

sociologist

The Convention on the Rights of the Child has transformed the way society thinks about children.

Its principles and provisions have become frequently cited references in various social and policy debates over the decades. It holds a distinguished place in international legal protection, reshaping and continuously evolving the understanding of children’s rights.

It is therefore essential to gain an accurate picture of the state of children’s rights in Hungary each year and to foster social discourse about which child rights issues have dominated public conversations in both legislation and law enforcement.

The Hintalovon Foundation’s annual Child Rights Reports, produced with outstanding professional expertise, have been meeting these expectations for years.

Erika Pehr Katonáné

Associate Professor, PTE ÁJK:

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