Hungary
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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
Burden of proof in discrimination cases
Definition of ‘work relationship’ modified by legislative amendments
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
