The LGBTI community in Hungary is going through a difficult time. A new law was introduced in June this year. The amendments within the law require that all media content that “propagates homosexuality or portrays it” shall not be shown to children under the age of 18, and commercials that show “diversion from one’s biological sex, change of gender, propagates or portrays homosexuality” shall not be made accessible to children.

In this episode our group´s Poland expert Dagny talks about the current human rights situation in Poland, focusing mostly on the recent protests and the government reaction to them, as well as the cause of the protest: the severe restrictions to women´s rights, above all of abortion, which is now effectively banned completely. 

In this episode we review human rights in 2020 and give a preview of what to expect in 2021. The main topics are Poland, Hungary, police violence and minority rights. 

This week the Hungarian government passed laws that severely restrict the rights of LGBTI, including banning them from adopting children.

We talked to two human rights activists from Hungary about the current situation, covering among others discrimination against LGBTI and Roma, the situation of youths and what needs to change.