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Hungary is committed to upholding the rights of its disabled citizens
Ministry of Human Resources, October 2, 2013 11:40 AM
Hungary was the first country to simultaneously ratify the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the related Optional Protocol. Thanks to this, we were the first country in which both individuals and civil organisations also have right to submit a complaint within the framework of the individual procedure set out in the CPRD’s Optional Protocol.
International conference on elderly care organised in Budapest
Ministry of Human Resources, October 1, 2013 4:01 PM
On the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons, an inter-professional conference was held to discuss issues related to elderly care.
Autism-Europe International Congress in Budapest
Ministry of Human Resources, September 26, 2013 5:59 PM
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog addressed the opening ceremony of the 10th Autism-Europe International Congress in Budapest on Wednesday, where he spoke about the state’s task to create appropriate conditions for treating autism and enabling people with autism to live a full life in society.
Minister of State Hölvényi condemns the recent atrocity in Szeged
Ministry of Human Resources, September 25, 2013 11:36 AM
Minister of State for Church and Minority Affairs György Hölvényi met with Chief Rabbi Zsolt Markovics in Szeged. At their meeting, the Minister of State condemned the recent atrocity against the Jewish community in the South-Hungarian city.
Amrita Sher-Gil exhibition opened at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris
Ministry of Human Resources, September 25, 2013 11:32 AM
An exhibition about Indian painter of Hungarian origin Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) opened at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Tuesday, marking her 100th birth anniversary.
French company Auchan opens training centre in Fót
Ministry of Human Resources, September 19, 2013 12:18 PM
Minister of State for Social and Family Affairs Miklós Soltész and CEO of Auchan Hungary Dominique Ducoux inaugurated a new training centre in Fót, north of Budapest, on Wednesday. The new centre will play an important role in the training of disabled workers.
Hungary signs culture, sport and healthcare agreements with Vietnam
Ministry of Human Resources, September 17, 2013 2:29 PM
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog and Vietnamese Deputy Ministers Le Khanh Hai and Le Quang Cuong concluded inter-ministerial agreements on culture, sport and healthcare on 16 September 2013 in Budapest. The work schedules determined for 2004-2016 will allow future direct cooperation between institutes and the development and realisation of concrete cooperation programmes. Parliamentary State Secretary András Doncsev from the Ministry of Human Resources opened an exhibition entitled "Vietnamese Porcelain - Fragile Reminiscence" in the Museum of Ethnography.
Zoltán Balog presents Móric Lukács Awards
Ministry of Human Resources, September 16, 2013 6:09 PM
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog presented the Móric Lukács Awards for the first time this year. The Awards may be presented to people or civil organisations that have excelled in their community organisation activities and whose work has facilitated the development of donation culture. The recognition was bestowed on HÁLÓ (Network of Catholic Communities within the Carpathian Basin), President of the Misi Nyilas Foundation Sándor Szabó and folk dancer József Szigetvári.
Minister Balog negotiates with Presidency of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Ministry of Human Resources, September 5, 2013 11:23 AM
The Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry holds its presidential meeting on the 4th-5th of September in Budapest in memory of the foundation of the 20-year old German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog met with the Presidency of the Chamber within the framework of a gala lunch.
Hungarian teachers to take courses in Israel
Ministry of Human Resources, September 4, 2013 1:29 PM
Twenty-four Hungarian teachers are to participate in a one-week course at the Israeli Yad Vashem Institute in November 2013.
Training program for disabled people
Ministry of Human Resources, September 3, 2013 4:24 PM
The training of 65 disabled people has been completed at Kézmű Nonprofit Ltd's site in Abádszalók, Eastern Hungary. The Hungarian Government provided the 6 million forint funding required for the program within the framework of the New Széchényi Plan, Minister of State for Social Affairs Miklós Soltész announced on Monday. Kézmű Nonprofit Ltd, which operates a sewing factory, employs 103 people of whom 73 are disabled.
Disadvantaged schools receive computers
Ministry of Human Resources, September 3, 2013 4:17 PM
24 schools have received 130 computers donated by Opel Hungary; a joint event held on Tuesday in Budaörs by the company and the Ministry of Human Resources to celebrate the fact was also attended by Minister of State for Public Education Rózsa Hoffmann.
Zoltán Balog: Hungary has no future without civic virtues
Ministry of Human Resources, September 2, 2013 5:49 PM
The Hungarian higher education system cannot exist nor can Hungary have a future without the civic virtues also characteristic of the 19th-20th century technical intellectuals, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog declared in his speech at the ceremony to mark the beginning of the new academic year at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).on Monday.
Public healthcare employees receive Government pay rise
Ministry of Human Resources, September 2, 2013 3:42 PM
In September, all those employed in Hungary's national healthcare system will receive a pay rise, retroactive from the beginning of the year, the State Secretariat for Health announced on Sunday.
Robert Capa Contemporary Photo Centre to be established
Ministry of Human Resources, August 30, 2013 11:46 AM
The Robert Capa Contemporary Photo Centre will function as an exhibition space and research and training centre from October, the Minister of State for Culture János Halász announced on Thursday.
Head of Műcsarnok named ministerial commissioner
Ministry of Human Resources, August 30, 2013 11:40 AM
Head of Budapest's art gallery Műcsarnok Gábor Gulyás, who recently announced that he will be stepping down, has been appointed as Ministerial Commissioner in charge of promoting contemporary Hungarian art abroad.
Exhibition of Hungarian Art in Shanghai
Ministry of Human Resources, August 29, 2013 2:29 PM
On Thursday in Budapest, the Directors of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Art and the Shanghai Art Museum in China signed an agreement on the organisation of a large-scale exhibition of the works of Mihály Munkácsy and other 20th century Hungarian artists in Shanghai in 2014.
Amendment to Public Education Act passed by Parliament
Ministry of Human Resources, August 27, 2013 4:54 PM
Parliament has adopted an amendment to the Hungarian Public Education Act, introducing career models and ensuring a pay rise to all teachers as of September 2013. Alongside the career models, the legislation also introduces a quality assurance system to eliminate differing ways of calculating teachers' salaries.
The deportation of hundreds of thousands of Germans was a great loss to Hungary
Ministry of Human Resources, August 26, 2013 12:49 PM
The Minister of Human Resources called the fact that hundreds of thousands of people of German descent were deported from Hungary following the Second World War a great loss. Zoltán Balog held a speech in Berlin on Saturday at the human rights event entitled "Day of the Fatherland" before organisations representing Germans who were expelled from various countries and representatives of the German federal government.
Government pays compensation to families of the 2008-2009 Roma murders
Ministry of Human Resources, August 16, 2013 3:12 PM
In 2008 and 2009, under the previous socialist Government, a series of nine attacks was committed against people of Roma origin in which six people were murdered, generating deep shock throughout the whole of society and leading to accusations that police had failed to protect a minority group.