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The authorities’ responses to the NPM’s
more important measures
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12.1.
Zita Home for Children with Special Needs
There were two exchanges of correspondence with the Ministry of Interior
in connection with the recommendation to develop a crime prevention and
victim support strategy in connection with the sexual exploitation of children
and child prostitution. As already explained by the Ministry in connection
with the Report on the visit to the Reménysugár (“Ray of Hope”) Children’s
Home of Debrecen,213 the National Strategy for Social Crime Prevention and
the National Strategy against Trafficking in Human Beings give an adequate
response to the issue, so, in the Ministry ’s opinion, there is no need for
developing an independent strategy in connection with the sexual exploitation of children and child prostitution.
Since, in the meantime, I started a follow-up inquiry214 in connection with
an earlier, comprehensive investigation into child prostitution,215 I am going
to continue the dialog within the frameworks of my general fundamentalrights-protection activities. The Ministry of Human Capacities (hereinafter
the “MoHC”) has established a working group for reviewing and, if necessary, revising the legal regulations related to the restriction of the personal
liberty of children living in children’s homes. The working group had its
only meeting in 2016 on May 18, 2016.216
The MoHC has promised to amend the relevant material and procedural
legal regulations in a way that would compel the Guardianship Authority
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Responses by the authorities in cases closed between January 01 and December 31, 2016.
Responses by the authorities in cases still in process on December 31, 2016, will be included
in that year ’s annual report when those cases are closed.
The documents related to the visit to the Reménysugár Children’s Home of Debrecen, conducted on January 29, 2015, are filed under number AJB-1227/2016.
See Report AJB-1835/2017.
See Report AJB-1227/2011.
See the section herein on the Home for Children with Special Needs of the Károlyi István
Children’s Center.
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