last updated September 14, 2006

Contributed by: Julia Spronz and Judit Herman,  Hungary National VAW Monitors

Hungary’s reporting schedule is determined by which treaties it ratified. The main treaties concerning the Hungarian State in the field of violence against women are as follows:

Name of treaty: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
Enacted by law-decree 8 of 1976 National reports are to be submitted every 4 years 

The Fifth Periodic Report is due 1 April 2007

Name of treaty: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
Enacted by law-decree 9 of 1976
National reports are to be submitted every 5 years
The Third and Fourth Periodic Reports were due on 30 June 1994 and 30 June 1999 and are overdue
The Fifth Periodic Report was due on 30 June 2004

Name of treaty: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (1979)
Enacted by law-decree 10 of 1982
National reports are due every 4 years
The CEDAW Committee reviewed Hungary’s joint fourth and fifth report in its Exceptional Session in August 2002

Name of treaty: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Name of treaty: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1999) Enacted by Act LX of 2001

Name of treaty: Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990)
Enacted by Act LXIV of 1991
Reports are due in every 5 years
The Second and Third Periodic Reports were due on 5 November 1998 and 5 November 2003 and both reports are overdue
The next periodic report is due 5 November 2008

Name of treaty: Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1987)
Enacted by law-decree 3 of 1988
Reports are due every 4 years
The Fourth Periodic Report was due on 25 June 2000 and is overdue

The Fifth Periodic Report is due on 25 June 2004 and is overdue
The next report is due 25 June 2008

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The Fifth Periodic Report is due 1 April 2007 

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Third and Fourth Periodic Reports were due on 30 June 1994 and 30 June 1999 and are overdue

 The Fifth Periodic Report was due on 30 June 2004

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The CEDAW Committee reviewed Hungary’s joint fourth and fifth report in its Exceptional Session in August 2002

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
The Eighteenth Periodic Report was due on 4 January 2004 and is overdue

Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Second and Third Periodic Reports were due on 5 November 1998 and 5 November 2003 and both reports are overdue