Oh, come on ladies, come on children, what’s so hard in a little quarantine? You just have to stay inside. You can keep that up for one or two YEARS.   Only the most vicious homebodies say that the measures taken in spring following the appearance of the corona virus were not exaggerated or…

“Crass, systematical intimate partner violence was constructed in front of our eyes: from punishment by silence through a destruction of a woman’s personality and self-esteem to verbal abuse and threats”, wrote media researcher and opinion journalist Vera Mérő in a Facebook post on the 10th season…

24.hu 01. 13. 11:09 In 2020, 65% more domestic violence crimes were registered in Hungary than in 2019: 650 cases, as opposed to 392 a year before. The number of registered sexual abuse cases has also grown by 36%, from 240 in 2019 to 327 in 2020. 56 cases of sexual coercion were registered in…

What can political decision makers do to eliminate violence against women? How did the government conclude the Year of Victim Assistance? During Mérce’s roundtable discussion on Wednesday organized within the 16 Days of Activism Kata Ámon, Fanni Dés and Barbara Tonté provided possible solutions…

There has never been a judgment in Hungary where the court had to put a price tag on a woman’s genitals. The victim of the case, known as the lye attack, initiated a legal action for damages against her assailant, a former hospital director, in 2017, but the civil law procedure was set aside until…

Hungarian journalist Nóra Miavecz has worked as a volunteer in London and South Africa for various civil society organizations specialized in helping prostitutes and victims of sex trafficking. Borbála Juhász from the Hungarian Women’s Lobby interviewed her about the interconnections of…