Hungary

Terre des hommes is the leading Swiss child relief agency which goal is to steadily improve the conditions of the most vulnerable children worldwide. They are focused on five main objectives: Improving the health of infants up to the age of 3 and of children in need of specialised medical care, protecting migrant children, preventing child exploitation, promoting restorative justice for children in trouble with the law and providing humanitarian aid to children and their families in times of emergency and crisis. The Foundation has operational programs in Albania Kosovo Moldova and Romania with a recent emergency program in Ukraine.

Hintalovon Foundation is a child rights NGO, aiming to promote and facilitate in practice the rights and well-being of children in Hungary. They operate a website and a mobile application for children between 10 and 18 on their self-image, relationships and sexuality, supported by a chat service, as well as a website for adults. The Pro Bono Child Rights Centre provides legal assistance and if necessary, representation to children and families in crisis. The Foundation’s trainings, research, case studies and other publications on children’s rights aim primarily at sensitizing professionals in child care, child protection and in the justice system. The lobby activity and awareness-raising campaigns contribute to the shaping of attitudes toward children in Hungary, in which child participation is both a means and an end. Hintalovon also publishes annual Child Rights Reports mirroring all reported changes in the legal child protection or other systems affecting children’s lives in Hungary.

Family, Child, Youth Association was established in 1993 with the objective of supporting the protection of children and strengthening families and family ties by fortifying, training and providing services to those involved and to the professionals working with them. Their main tasks include the adaptation of child and family protection programs already successfully employed abroad, the involvement in international research and training programs, the organisation of national and international conferences, the distribution of information and raising awareness.

The Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights is the legal successor of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Civil Rights, who ensures the effective, coherent and most comprehensive protection of fundamental rights and in order to implement the Fundamental Law of Hungary.

NestingPlay is a social enterprise with the mission to improve the learning outcomes and social inclusion of early-age children (3-8 years) with atypical development. They work on early childhood education with the power of play (Learning through Play) to improve children’s social, emotional, creative, and cognitive skill development. Nestingplay’s methodology builds on the traditions of the Hungarian special education (A. Peto and A. Deveny) as well as the sensory-based development (M. Montessori and J. Ayres) methods. They provide education support activities to teachers in different educational institutions, parents, and municipalities, following a child’s development from 3 to 8 years. All these services are available for economically disadvantaged (and often segregated communities) and mainstream communities. The founder and CEO of Nestingplay is Eszter Harsányi. 

Ágnes is an expert working on children’s rights for more than a decade now. She pursued her PhD in children’s rights researching the topic of non- discrimination complaint mechanisms with close focus on the experience of children’s rights ombudsperson’s office as she was also the leader of the ombudsman’ children’s rights project between 2010-2014 in Hungary. Now, she is coordinating the work of the Hungarian Child Rights NGO Coalition. She is not unknown to Eurochild as previously she was part of the Policy Steering Committee before the establishment of the NPN group and she also participated at some of the NPNs meeting as a delegated of Mária Herczog, former President of Eurochild.