The Child’s Rights Center of Central Europe (CRC CE) gathers child rights experts and students, young researchers (with an interest in children’s rights) of the region with the aim to share and exchange knowledge and expertise. Given the cross and interdisciplinary nature of the rights of the child, the aim is to provide a platform to not only to lawyers but to other pofessions that are deeply involved in the realisation of children’s rights i.e. (but not exclusivly) pedagogy, psychology, criminology.
The blog of the CRC CE aims to provide an overview and information about important events in the field of children’s rights of the region. It aims to gather and shorty analyse legislative changes, court decisions that are either adopted on a national level of CEE countries or that have an impact on the region and are concluded on and International or European level. In addition to the legal aspects, the insights and research results of psychology, pedagogy, criminology are also included.
Honorary Members
Prof. Dr. Balázs Schanda
Judge, Constitutional Court of Hungary
Full Professor, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Korać Graovac
Full Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Dr. Jozef Mikloško
Commissioner for Children, Slovakia
Prof. Dr. Marek Andrzejewski
Full Professor, Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Dr. Suzana Kraljić
Full Professor, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Assoc. Prof. Lilla Garayová
Vice-Dean for International Relations, Pan-European University, Slovakia
Secretary of the Child's Rights Center
Josipa Kokić
Junior Researcher, Central European Academy of the University of Miskolc
PhD Student, Deák Ferenc Doctoral School of Law, University of Miskolc
Children's Rights Report Pilot – 2024 (EN)
This report, titled "Children's Rights Report – Pilot 2024," was published under the care of the Association for Children's Rights and the Central European Academy of the University of Miskolc, prepared as a first pilot study examining the state of children's rights in Hungary during 2024. It combines a descriptive overview of legal and institutional developments with a survey-based assessment of practices across four faith-based child welfare providers — the Diocese of Hajdúdorog, the Diocese of Vác, the Piarist Order's Hungarian Province, and the Hungarian Baptist Aid. It draws on the framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, reviewing legislative changes, institutional practices, and social trends, and situates its analysis within a value-based perspective informed by the authors' own faith tradition, while also engaging with international and EU-level legal standards. As with any single-perspective assessment, readers may wish to consult it alongside other sources — including secular, governmental, and international children's rights bodies — to form a fully rounded picture of the topic.
Children's Rights Report Pilot – 2024 (HU)
A "Gyermekjogi jelentés – Pilot 2024" című dokumentum a Gyermekjogokért Egyesület s és a Miskolci Egyetem Közép-európai Akadémia gondozásában jelent meg, első pilot kutatásként, amely Magyarország 2024-es gyermekjogi helyzetét vizsgálja. A jelentés ötvözi a jogi és intézményi változások leíró áttekintését egy kérdőíves felméréssel négy egyházi fenntartóval illetve intézménnyel — a Hajdúdorogi Egyházmegyénél, a Váci Egyházmegyénél, a Piarista Rend Magyar Tartományánál és a Magyarországi Baptista Szeretetszolgálatnál. A jelentés az ENSZ Gyermekjogi Egyezményének keretrendszerére támaszkodik, áttekinti a jogszabályi változásokat, az intézményi gyakorlatokat és a társadalmi tendenciákat, elemzését pedig a szerzők saját hitéleti hagyományából fakadó értékalapú szemlélettel egészíti ki, miközben nemzetközi és uniós jogi mércékkel is összeveti azt. Mint minden egyetlen nézőpontból készült értékelés esetében, érdemes lehet más forrásokkal — így világi, kormányzati és nemzetközi gyermekjogi szervezetek anyagaival — együtt olvasni, hogy a témáról teljes körű kép alakulhasson ki.
Child's Rights Center of Central Europe
The Child’s Rights Center of Central Europe (CRC CE) gathers child rights experts and students, young
researchers (with an interest in children’s rights) of the region with the aim to share and exchange
knowledge and expertise.
Dr. Márta Benyusz
Chairwoman
Márta Benyusz is the president of the Association of Children’s Rights. She led the Department of International and EU Law at the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law for more than three years. She graduated at the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law and also holds a European and International Business Law LL.M., completed in English language at the same university. She is currenty completing her Ph.D studies at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in the field of children’s rights. She is also an attorney-at-law admitted to the Budapest Bar Association, currently her activity is on pause. She is professional coordinator of the annualy organised Children’s Rights Days international conference and she provided professional support to initiate the International and Comparative Children’s Rights LL.M programme to which the Central European Academy provides a scholarship. She was a freelance advisor on children rights to the Office of Religious Orders and was and is involved in many projects on the rights of the child. She has the ability to conduct research and speak in Polish, English, French and Hungarian.
