Full Coverage: Hungary

13.10.2006 The Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational program of the Open Society Institute (OSI), joins with Central European University (CEU) to announce the Justice Initiative Fellows Program for 2007-2009. The aim of the program is to support and expand a network of lawyers and activists working internationally on human rights-related issues. Established in 1996, the Justice Initiative Fellows Program has graduated 155 fellows from more than 20 countries.

04.10.2005 Demonstrations of biker power have grown progressively stronger in Hungary's capital since the first mass bike rally on World Car-Free Day in 2004.

13.06.2005 Grassroots politics met an unexpected success last week when Dr. László Sólyom was elected Hungary's new president; a committed environmentalist, Sólyom's nomination was originally intended to be symbolic. The campaign grew from political disenchantment, and progress had been thought impossible by many as political parties seemed interested in keeping the population divided along ideological lines.

27.04.2005 For the academic year 2004/2005, the Department of Legal Studies at Central European University is introducing an advanced course in European Union Legal Practice. The program aims to bring together an international mix of participants from all over the world: law students near completion of their law degree, law graduates and legal professionals, who are seeking further credentials and experience in the field.

26.12.2003 Internet service providers in Nigeria and Hungary will soon no longer be able to freely use a frequency meant for industrial, scientifc and medical bands. This is expected to result in about 10,000 familes being unable to afford internet access.

24.07.2003 Conference on education and environment
The National Institute of Public Education, Hungary is holding a conference on environmental education and teachers. The conference brings together researchers in environmental education and teachers.

18.07.2003 A new initative, called the Roma Education Fund, will provide funding to raise the educational status and performance of the Roma in East Europe and elsewhere. At present, few Roma children complete primary school and many are wrongly placed in schools for children with special needs.

03.07.2003 Hashim Thaci, a former ethnic Albanian rebel in Kosovo, is now a leading politician in the Albanian/Serb province. On the basis of an old warrant issued by the Serb judiciary during the Milosevic's rule, Thaci has been briefly detained by police in Hungary. Source:BBC

26.05.2003 Hungarian capital Budapest is gearing up to host a 10-day ICT training programme in August 2003. With an emphasis on public interest advocacy, the programme will offer participants the opportunity to engage in the global ICT policy debate from a European perspective.

24.01.2003 The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is going to use ActionApps, a software developed by APC, in a four-year study of the plant life throughout Hungary. The software will help it to quickly and easily publish news about the survey process, advertise events and manage related information.

01.10.2002 ICTs are helping governments become more transparent and accountable to citizens, UNESCO has said, citing a recently released joint study> conducted with the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development. But the 15-nation study also found new technologies "posing a challenge to traditional decision-making structures", the UN agency added.

28.08.2002 Prepared by the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development (COMNET-IT), the study includes 15 country abstracts providing an initial snapshot for countries chosen to represent different situations in each of UNESCO's region.

28.08.2002 Prepared by the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development (COMNET-IT), the study includes 15 country abstracts providing an initial snapshot for countries chosen to represent different situations in each of UNESCO's region.

10.06.2002 The attempt to hike Internet access rates by the leading telecom giant in Hungary has raised fears that many Hungarians will be left without Internet access.

28.04.2002 A Hungarian court recently ruled against an attempt by local officials to bar gays from a cultural festival. Good news, but more legal reform is needed to ensure the same thing doesn't happen again.

20.11.2001 Over 11,000 protected bird species were discovered dead this week in an Italy-bound truck crossing the Hungarian border.

08.05.2001 Hungary is trying to reassure its neighbours that plans to grant special rights to ethnic Hungarians in surrounding countries such as Romania, Slovakia and Yugoslavia are not meant as discrimination against the majority populations.

12.03.2001 Seven people are dead and 300,000 people have been affected by the worst flooding for decades in the Central European countries of Hungary, Romania and Ukraine sparked by a record rise in water levels along the Tisza River and its tributaries.

27.04.2000 Design faults and shoddy operating conditions were at the root of the devastating toxic mine breach which unleashed up to 100 tonnes of cyanide into Romanian, Hungarian and Yugoslavian rivers earlier this year, according to a United Nations probe into the incident.

14.04.2000 Environmentalists are urging Hungary's government to launch a review of the future of mining at a key point along Europe's second longest river, following a deadly cyanide spill earlier this year.