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Monday 4 June, Amnesty International placed a giant heart balloon outside the Parliament in Budapest. The 10x10x5 meter red heart was there to tell Hungarian MPs that people working for a fair and safe Hungary need to be protected, not attacked or threatened. Therefore, the draconian legislative proposal submitted by the government to the Parliament – dubbed ‘Stop Soros’ and aiming to criminalise those helping refugees and migrants and to instil fear and silence civil society – must be voted down. . The face of the heart balloon installation was the “Civil” symbol – – logo of over 250 organizations working in coalition in Hungary for rights and freedoms. The giant heart is a symbol of the strong and heartfelt worldwide support for civil society, organisations and activists, working for a Hungary that is fair and safe for all. More than 22,000 people from 50+ countries around the world have sent messages of support to NGOs in Hungary both offline and online, which have also been collected in a booklet of solidarity that was handed over to MPs.

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Mass protests in Europe provide hope as rights and judicial independence eroded

April 16, 2020 | Human Rights Defenders

Protesters take part in a demonstration as part of a global day of student protests aiming to push world leaders into action on climate change on March 15, 2019, on the Old Port in Marseille, southeastern France. – The worldwide youth protests were inspired by a Swedish teen activist who camped out in front of parliament in Stockholm last year to demand action from world leaders on global warming. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP) (Photo credit should read CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images)

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Amnesty Chief Urges Schools to Let Children Take Part in Climate Strikes

September 10, 2019 | amnesty canada

A participant knees in front of the riot police line outside the headquarter of the Hungarian state television as demonstrators of a rally by members and sympathisers of several trade unions, political parties and civil organisations protest against changes to the labour code proposed by the Prime Minister’s party in Budapest on December 16, 2018. (Photo by PETER KOHALMI / AFP) (Photo credit should read PETER KOHALMI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Hungary: Police must rein in unnecessary and excessive force used against protesters

December 17, 2018 | Central Europe

A young migrant boy waits in front of the Hungarian border fence at the Tompa border station transit zone on April 6, 2017 as the Hungarian Interior Minister Sandor Pinter (not pictured) presents the camp to the media. The migrant transit complex on the Hungarian side of the border has been expanded to become one of two new detention centers for asylum seekers in the Hungarian transit zone and contains shipping containers that are used to automatically detain migrants in the transit zone while their claims are investigated. / AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

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Hungary: Draconian anti-NGO law will be resisted every step of the way

June 20, 2018 | asylum seekers

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