48 Several or all nationalities 15% General human rights 7% Bulgarian 6% Greek 3% Croatian 3% Polish 1% Ukrainian 2% German 16% Slovenian 3% Armenian 1% Slovak 12% Roma 16% Serbian 3% Ruthenian 4% Romanian 8% Distribution of Secretariat events according to nationalities (2019) 2.6.2. INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT • Upon Hungary’s nomination, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe elected Dr. Elisabeth Sándor-Szalay In 2019, the field of national minorities’ rights offered a number of as a permanent member of the Advisory Committee on the opportunities for the Deputy Commissioner to act at the internation- Framework Convention for the Protection of National al level, working together with various regional and international Minorities at its session of 25 May 2016. Thereby, she has the organisations, liaising with the governmental and civil society opportunity to assess the actual enforcement of the rights of organisations of the mother countries of the nationalities, and national minorities in a number of European states and the cooperating with the Ombudsmen of the Visegrad Group (V4) coun- achievements of the different minority protection models, tries. These relations are mutually beneficial, as the domestic rights as well as to play an active role in establishing the European- protection activities often go hand in hand with the international legal development activities: in many cases, the best practices and achieve- level minority protection standards. • Convinced that specialized education and the sensitisation ments of other countries or their bodies can be directly applied in the of the next generation of experts are particularly important, work of the Deputy Commissioner. the Deputy Commissioner is also a permanent lecturer in Professional representation at international level has been Hungarian, English and Romanian languages at the University strengthened via two important avenues: of Pécs, the Babeş–Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and the West University of Timişoara. foreign universities 16% international professional organisations 28% 15% European Union 9% Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 0% 20% 16% 8% 4% 26% Council of Europe 34% 11% government agencies and officials 2% United Nations 9% Distribution of international relations according to partners (inner ring: 2018, outer ring: 2019) REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF HUNGARY AND HIS DEPUTIES – 2019