Indicator history

Act LXXVII of 1993 on the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities (entry in force: 25 November 2005) ensures members of recognized minorities' right to learn their own mother tounge and take part in minority education, where the language of teaching is the minority's mother tounge.

"Article 13
Persons belonging to a minority have the right to
a) learn, foster, enrich and pass on their mother tongue, history, culture and traditions;
b) participate in minority language education and cultural activities;
c) have their personal data related to their minority status protected as determined by a separate Act"

"Article 18
(1) Public service television and radio stations ensure – within an independent organisational unit and with resources allocated for this purpose alone, as provided for in a separate Act – that national and ethnic minority programmes are produced, broadcast and disseminated on a regular basis.
(2) On territories inhabited by minorities, the government promotes – also through international contracts – the reception of radio and television programmes from the kin state.
(3) Minority communities have the right to
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a) initiate and take part in the creation of the necessary conditions for minority kindergarten, primary, secondary and higher education, and initiate and take part in the creation of the necessary conditions of complementary minority education through their national minority self-governments,
b) establish their own educational, training, cultural and scientific institutional network at national level within the boundaries of existing laws.
(4) The Republic of Hungary – within the framework of its laws – guarantees the rights of minority communities to hold their own events and celebrate their own feasts free from disturbance, to preserve and maintain their architectural, cultural and religious relics, to preserve, foster and pass on their traditions, and to use their cultural symbols."

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http://www.nek.gov.hu/data/files/128823812.pdf (last accessed: 12.01.2012)