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Funds available in budget for containment of virus
The containment effort to combat the coronavirus epidemic will have a budget of several hundred billion forints, these funds are available in the budget, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at his Thursday online press conference......
We would need more solidarity in a global pandemic
As we all face the most serious pandemic in a century, when governments everywhere are battling an unknown enemy and doing our best to protect the population against the spread of the virus and to save lives – I guess I hoped that this time we’d see a little more solidarity, Zoltán Kovács stressed.....
Slowing down transmission of COVID-19
One of the most important contributions we can make to slowing down transmission of COVID-19 and keeping ourselves and our communities safe is to wash our hands. This is the main message of World Water Day 2020 on 22 March, and everyone has a role to play. ....
The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded its consideration of the periodic report of Hungary
On 22-23 January, 2020, the Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded its consideration of the sixth periodic report of Hungary on how the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child are implemented. Ann Skelton, Co-rapporteur for Hungary thanked the delegation for the candour with which it had answered the Committee’s questions. Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Committee chairperson stressed that the best thing for the children of Hungary would be the best thing for the country as a whole....
The first ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva
The first ever Global Refugee Forum comes at the end of a turbulent decade in which the number of refugees has risen to over 25 million people and an unprecedented 70.8 million people around the world have been forced to flee from home.....