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…

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…

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…

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…

Alissa Milano’s 2017 #MeToo tweet caused a huge uproar worldwide. Thousands answered Milano’s post with the hashtag Metoo almost instantly, and these numbers increased rapidly as the days passed. Few are aware that the #MeToo movement was originally started by Tarana Burke ten years earlier, in…

Pedophilia and sex tourism are grave crimes of child abuse, which affect millions of children every year. Sex tourism is a global industry bringing billions of dollars, wherein children from Brazil, Cambodia, Thailand, Colombia and Kenya are prey to well-situated Wester customers. We would like to…

It first came to light in 2014 that in the 1980s a teacher had exploited the trust of the children admiring him and sexually abused them at his apartment after school, in the summer camps he led, and later at his workplace, when he created children’s television programs. The victims started to speak…

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 34-year-old man was sentenced for one year and ten months in prison for having sex with a minor with her consent, but the sentence has been suspended for three years, the Somogy County Prosecutor’s Office told Hungarian news agency MTI. Apparently, the man was familiar with the 13-year-old girl’s…