A new law that prohibits adoption by non-married couples and a female minister telling women that they shouldn’t expect to earn as much as men. It’s been another dark week for human rights in Hungary.
It would appear that attacks on women’s rights in Hungary are not the sole remit of its male politicians. The country’s family minister, Katalin Novak, a woman, doesn’t appear to think much of women’s empowerment either.
Lydia Gall, a senior researcher for Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans at Human Rights Watch, wrote earlier this week that “I nearly choked on my coffee” when she watched a misogynist propaganda video featuring Hungary’s minister responsible for families, Katalin Novak, lecturing Hungarian women on how to be successful.
Hungary Bans Adoption By Same-Sex Couples In A Major Setback To LGBTQ+ Rights
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Hungarian minister with responsibility for families, Katalin Novak, in a December 2020 video lecturing Hungarian women about how they can achieve success. © Axioma Media
I nearly choked on my coffee when I watched the misogynist propaganda video published this week featuring Hungary’s minister responsible for families, Katalin Novak, lecturing Hungarian women on how to be successful. It included “advice” on how women should not always compete with men or expect to get the same pay as them. Rather, women should relish their roles as child bearers and caregivers, she said, while adding that Hungarian women shouldn’t give up their “privileges over some misguided fight for emancipation.” Novak introduces the video by discussing the importance of following baking recipes, driving home the ‘your place is in the kitchen’ message for women.
Pal says the adoption agency offered Andris to several married straight couples before he and Hanol could take him home 2½ years ago. We were the next in the line as a single parent, and we adopted him. And we are super happy with him, and he s a healthy, beautiful little boy actually the most perfect boy that you can imagine. We still have a chance
Now they want to give their perfect boy a sibling. This time, it s Hanol who is seeking to adopt a child.
The process was already under way before the new law came into effect, so the couple believes they still have a chance to grow their family.
Rights groups condemn Hungarian ban on same-sex adoptions
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 12:12 pm EDT
FILE - In this Saturday, July 6 2013 file photo participants walk down Andrassy Street under a giant rainbow flag during the 18th Budapest Gay Pride March in Budapest, Hungary. Human rights and LGBT groups have condemned an amendment to Hungary’s constitution approved on Tuesday that effectively bans adoption for same-sex couples and enshrines a strict Christian conservative ideology into the legal conception of the family. (AP Photo/MTI, Imre Foldi, file)
BUDAPEST, Hungary Human rights groups on Wednesday condemned a new Hungarian law that effectively bans adoption for same-sex couples and applies a strict Christian conservative viewpoint to the legal definition of a family.
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