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“Every child is important, as is every right of the child: to protect and ensure them is a fundamental obligation of the state. Our common responsibility lies in creating a better, more liveable, child-centred future”, as Ombudsman Dr. Ákos Kozma reminds us on World Children’s Day. The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary believes that amidst the increasing challenges of our days such as war conflicts, the global climate change, as well as skyrocketing digital development, even more attention should be paid and even more resources should be allocated to the well-being of children, the protection of their mental health and hearing their opinions.

Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma paid an official visit to the head of the Austrian Ombudsman Board, Secretary-General of the International Ombudsman Institution (IOI) Ms. Gaby Schwarz in Vienna on 30 October 2023. At the work meeting, the closure of the road section between Somfalva (Schattendorf) and Ágfalva (Agendorf), among others, was discussed.

Creating and maintaining a dignified, active, autonomous and healthy old age, a social environment that is empathetic, shows solidarity with and supports elderly persons is our common responsibility. It is a question of key importance that old age, which has no exact limits that can be expressed as the number of years, should be surrounded by recognition and respect rather than stigmatisation, i.e. the stigma of weakness and helplessness. There is no successful society without building bridges between the generations, mutual attention, common thinking and cooperation, repeated Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons this year again.

In his report No. AJB-1665/2023 of 17 April 2023 on the legal criteria of using the family housing allowance (CSOK), the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights drew attention to that the CSOK decrees require the existence of a social insurance legal relationship as a prerequisite for using the allowance as a general rule.

Hungarian citizens have turned to Dr. Ákos Kozma, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary, about the the closure of the road connecting the villages of Somfalva (Schattendorf) and Ágfalva.

Commissioner for Fundamental Rights Dr. Ákos Kozma and Ombudsman for Future Generations Dr. Gyula Bándi called attention to the importance of the implementation of the global goals for the protection of biodiversity on the national level and on the need for active action on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity.

“It is at both hard and imperative to celebrate the rights of the child when there is a war raging next to us, whose victims are not only the affected children but also, childhood itself”, Ombudsman Dr. Ákos Kozma reminds us on World Children’s Day. The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary thinks that the pandemic, the ensuing economic problems and the war, as well as the climate change pose enormous challenges to the states and families as they are but in the meantime, we should not forget to give our children not only security but also, a real childhood.

The President of the International Ombudsman Institute arrived in Hungary at the invitation of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma. During his multi-day visit, Mr. Chris Field is getting first-hand information on the direct legal and humanitarian support that is provided by the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary (AJBH) to the persons fleeing from the war in Ukraine, among others, at the Beregsurány and Záhony ombudsman information points. The President of IOI, who is paying his first official visit in Hungary right now, is also getting informed about the operation of the regional offices of AJBH and holds consultation meetings with the President of the Constitutional Court and the heads of the police forces, the aliens policing authority and the prison service, among others.

Dr. Ákos Kozma, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary and Dr. Gyula Bándi, Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Ombudsman for Future Generations call for joint action in a statement on World Environment Day.

Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Dr. Gyula Bándi, Deputy Commissioner for the Interests of Future Generations call attention to the importance of the protection of all forms of life on Earth in their joint statement issued on the occasion of Earth Day.

Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Dr. Gyula Bándi, Deputy Commissioner for the Interests of Future Generations call attention to the importance of the protection of groundwater in their joint statement issued on the occasion of World Water Day.

Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Dr. Gyula Bándi, Deputy Commissioner for the Interests of Future Generations call attention to the importance of sustainable forest management in their joint statement issued on the International Day of Forests.