Hungary

Whether the fact that no accessible online cash registers are available in the Hungarian market is a violation of the rights of those blind or visually impaired persons who would be required to use them in relation to the services or goods they offer

Checking only a Roma passenger’s train ticket on the railroad platform amounts to discrimination

Whether it is possible to order effective measures to combat school segregation, such as the effective closing down of a segregated school

Application of the rules of proof in a situation when the victim of discrimination is alone 

Whether a municipal decree banning religious clothing and on expressing support for homosexual marriage is constitutional in Hungary

Whether school can exempt its responsibility under the Equal Treatment Act by referring to the intention to protect child from harassment and whether refusal on this basis amounts to a violation of inherent personal rights

Whether a mayor’s open letter to local residents to refrain from selling their real estates to non-local Roma people, amounts to harassment under the relevant Hungarian legislation  

Whether a ban on religious clothing and on expressing support for homosexual marriage is constitutional in Hungary 

Violations of constitutional principles in the practice followed at Budapest airport, resulting in a series of refusals to allow Roma passengers to board airplanes to Canada

After Roma-only school is closed down in small town, schools of neighbouring town deny enrolment and the central state body responsible for the management of schools takes action with significant delay

Whether the failure of a municipality to adequately plan and prepare the winding up of a segregated Roma neighbourhood (and thus creating the threat of homelessness among the concerned families) amounts to discrimination

Whether age limits are discriminatory in job advertisements even if the some of the applicants are older than the maximum age set in the ad 

Whether the Ministry responsible for education has a role in and responsibility for not acting against segregation, and whether Hungarian courts are willing to order effective measures to combat school segregation 

Whether the failure of a municipality to adequately plan and prepare the winding up of a segregated Roma neighbourhood (and thus creating the threat of homelessness among the concerned families) amounts to discrimination

Whether conditions of access to social housing as defined in municipal decree amount to indirect discrimination based on ethnicity

Ombudsman concludes that municipal decrees aiming to drive indigent families (most of them Roma) out of the city or to prevent them from moving in are discriminative. Other serious violations are also discovered in relation to the practice of social housing in Miskolc. 

Whether racist speech by public figure can be regarded as harassment