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7.
According to the 2001 census,1 out of a total population of 10,198,315 there were
190,046 Roma (1.9 per cent); 62,233 Germans (0.6 per cent); 17,693 Slovaks (0.17 per
cent); 15,620 Croatian (0.15 per cent); 7,995 Romanians (0.07 per cent); 5,070 Ukrainians
(0.04 per cent); 3,816 Serbs (0.03 per cent); 3,040 Slovenians (0.02 per cent); 2,962 Poles
(0.02 per cent); 2,509 Greeks (0.02 per cent); 1,358 Bulgarians (0.01 per cent); 1,098
Ruthenians (0.01 per cent) and 620 Armenians (0.006 per cent). There are also an estimated
100,000 Jews in Hungary. Unofficial estimates variously put the number of Roma between
250,000 and 800,000 of the population. Hungary has a growing immigrant population,
dominated by numerous Chinese.
8.
According to information received subsequent to the mission a national census was
carried out in October 2011. The final results of the census had not yet been published at
the time of writing.
III. Legal human rights framework
A.
International human rights framework
9.
At the international level, Hungary is a State party to the core international human
rights instruments, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol. Hungary is also a State
party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention relating to the Status of
Stateless Persons, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the UNESCO
Convention against Discrimination in Education. However Hungary is not a party to the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families.
10.
At the regional level, Hungary has ratified key instruments including the European
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the European
Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the Framework Convention for the Protection
of National Minorities, the European Social Charter of 1961 and the Revised European
Social Charter of 1996. Hungary has yet to ratify the 1995 Collective Complaints Protocol
of the European Social Charter, the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime,
concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through
computer systems, and Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which provides for a general prohibition of
discrimination.
B.
Constitutional provisions
11.
The new Hungarian Constitution, adopted with a two-thirds majority by the
Hungarian Parliament on 25 April 2011, entered into force on 1 January 2012. In this
regard a series of laws were introduced after the mission. At the time of the mission some
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