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The Rights Reporter Blog

The Rights Reporter Blog provides you English news updates, articles and videos about rising authoritarian rule in Hungary.

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Video Advocacy

We produce high quality movies and other multimedia content, to document human rights abuses, to educate the public about best practices, to make policy making more accountable and transparent, to chronicle major events of social movements, and to give voice to those people who are marginalised.

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Training

We provide training to other NGOs in media and video advocacy. In the past two years, we have trained hundreds of people from all over the world.

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Media work

We work with the mainstream media to raise awareness on human rights issues that are rarely covered by them from the perspectives of the most affected communities.

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Networking

We are part of several international networks and run our own Drugreporter Video Advocacy Network and the European Drugpolicy Inititative. 

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Campaigns

We launch international and national campaigns, focussed on changing drug policies and promoting harm reduction. Most of our campaigns address one of the most outdated global systems, the international drug control system.

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Drugreporter

Our English language website, Drugreporter, is one of the key regional drug-policy-related news hubs, with a unique online video database, which is constantly growing. 

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Campaigns

We launch international and national campaigns, focussed on changing drug policies and promoting harm reduction. Most of our campaigns address one of the most outdated global systems, the international drug control system.

Read more ›› Campaigns

Drugreporter

Our English language website, Drugreporter, is one of the key regional drug-policy-related news hubs, with a unique online video database, which is constantly growing. 

Read more ›› Drugreporter

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ABOUT THE AUTOCRACY ANALYST

This blog provides you English news updates, articles, and videos about rising authoritarian rule in Hungary.

WHY DO WE NEED IT NOW?

We live in an age where democracy is in decay and authoritarianism is rising. One of the first countries where the tide turned and the process of democratisation was reversed is Hungary. Since it came to power in 2010, the government of Viktor Orban has been slowly undermining the rule of law with its constant attacks against democratic institutions, independent press, and civil society.

According to the Nations in Transit report published by Freedom House in 2020, Hungary is no longer a democracy but a “hybrid regime”, having lost its status as a “semi-consolidated democracy”.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the situation has further deteriorated. The government used the crisis as a pretence for a power-grab that has been unprecedented in the European Union: the Orban government can now govern by decree, without any constitutional checks or balances, for an unspecified time period. Armoured with its newly gained powers, the government is now launching further assaults against civil liberties and the rule of law.

Civil society and the remnants of the independent press make huge efforts to monitor and document these assaults, but they often remain invisible to those who do not speak Hungarian. This blog aims to fill this gap and provide an analytic insight into rising authoritarianism by presenting relevant cases for abuses of power, and giving voice to activists and communities under attack.

OUR MISSION

"The Rights Reporter Foundation (RRF) is a non-profit organisation founded by Hungarian activists to advocate for the human rights of vulnerable populations. Our vision is of a society where policies affecting vulnerable communities are evidence-informed and respect human rights, as well as developed and implemented with the meaningful involvement of these communities."
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