Hungary passes amendment banning public LGBTQ+ events
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The amendment declares that children's rights to moral, physical and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including the right to peaceful assembly.

Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities, a decision that legal scholars and critics are calling another step toward authoritarianism.

The amendment, which required a two-thirds vote, passed along party lines with 140 votes for and 21 against.

It was proposed by the ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

The amendment declares that children’s rights to moral, physical and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including the right to peacefully assemble.

The amendment codifies a law fast-tracked through parliament in March that bans public events held by LGBTQ+ communities, including the popular Pride event in Budapest that draws thousands of visitors annually.

That law also allows authorities to use facial recognition tools to identify people who attend prohibited events and can come with fines of up to 200,000 Hungarian forints (€481).

  • talEnglish
    92·
    9 days ago

    unfortunately the EU can’t take Hungary to court.

    Hmm. No? Isn’t that what the European Court of Human Rights is for, as to ECHR violations?

    There are rulings against countries here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Court_of_Human_Rights_judgments

    For violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, I’d think that the European Court of Justice would have jurisdiction, and I see rulings here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Court_of_Justice_rulings

    Like Commission v. Italy.

    They also ignored the ICC order to arrest Netanyahu.

    I’m not sure as to whether this affects things. I don’t think that this is a matter of law that the ICC deals with.

    ICC members have ignored ICC arrest warrants before, so there’s some precedent; I remember that coming up with Putin.

    And as far as I know, the ICC isn’t the court that would deal with EU treaty violations, yes? It’s not an EU institution or Council of Europe institution.

    EDIT: And I see a list of LGBT cases here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ-related_cases_before_international_courts_and_quasi-judicial_bodies

    That includes cases under the European Court of Human Rights and under the Court of Justice of the European Union (which the European Court of Justice is part of).

    • huppakee@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      91·
      9 days ago

      I don’t know much about legal systems so your comments and sources are nice, but I haven’t really seen the EU having much influence on Orban so far while I feel they have had problems with a lot of stuff he did.

      • dzsimbo@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        9 days ago

        Get BMW, Audi & Mercedes to suspend activities. While the EU is still reaping the benefits of a worsening forint, it rings hollow that they wouldn’t have influence. Even closing the funds (tying it to rule of law) has had a positive effect, the regime seems to ve feeling it. It feels more and more that it’s all about the cashflow and sating interests.

        The problem is the people in the EU have as much control over this phenomenon as an average opposition voter in Hungary.