The priest who molested A. – let’s call him Brúnó – used to organize camps for children in a bad socio-economic situation from congregations near Budapest. Thousands of children from the most vulnerable classes participated in these camps, but we do not know how many fell victim to the sexual…

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…

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…

Where we started from Talking about the media representation of gender-based violence, we can all bring up horrifying examples. And though we might claim that the situation has improved enormously in the past decades, some memorable cases from the recent past show that we often automatically…

The police, the court system, health care and even the education system may betray those abused women who, when seeking help, turn to institutions that were meant to offer protection - this was the main subject of the discussion on Monday night, broadcasted on Facebook , organized by Patent…

The infamous case started in 2013, when Erika Renner was attacked in her home by her ex-boyfriend Krisztián Bene, that-time director of the Hospital of the Brothers Hospitallers in Budapest, who poured lye on the woman’s genitals. Bene was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Renner sued him for a…

A teacher working in a kindergarten operated by the district took pornographic pictures of children for years. On April 29th, 2020 the police made an announcement that she had been working in liaison with her boyfriend. The investigators have found evidence that she also made pictures at her…

  In our previous post we summarized the stories of two victims of domestic violence, Barbara Seres and Bernadett Orosz, who participated in Nőkért Women's Association's roundtable discussion on August 26th…

The name of Bernadett Orosz and her story are familiar to many. On Wednesday, August 26th she would have stood in court with the charge of defamation, because after being brutally beaten, she had not kept it secret but was brave enough to share it. The trial was delayed at the request of the…