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2019 Annual Report
Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary, presents the report regarding the activities of the office in 2019. It encompasses the full range of efforts made by Commissioner Kozma and his two Deputy Commissioners, namely the Ombudsman for the Rights of National Minorities and the Ombudsman for Future Generations to promote and protect the fundamental rights in Hungary.
The Commissioner informs that, among other activities in 2020, he conducted forty on-site inspections in Hungary during the state of danger that had been ordered on 11 March 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. As opposed to the international Ombudsman practice, which put more emphasis on holding events online, Dr. Kozma paid personal visits all over Hungary to survey the measures taken for the prevention of the Coronavirus pandemic.
In full compliance with the relevant protective measures, he inspected six children’s homes, seven social care institutions and foster homes, and he also visited, among others, the Emergency Centre of the Coronavirus Operational Group and the Kiskunhalas Mobile Disease Control Hospital. Furthermore, Commissioner Kozma inspected six facilities belonging to the National Police Headquarters, the National Directorate General for Disaster Management and the Hungarian Defence Forces, and paid visits to twelve border crossing points, two juvenile reformatories and five prison establishments. More information about these visits can be found on the website of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights.
Source: Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Hungary
