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Utcajogász Egyesület

Budapest, Hungary
Joined November 2018

our aim to provide legal service to people with poverty especially regarding to housing problems, homelessness and other issues



Presence in: Hungary
Focus: Criminal Justice, Education, Family, Housing Rights & Informal Settlements

The Streetlawyer Association has been operating its free legal aid program at Blaha Lujza Square for more than eight years, during which time they provided legal opinions and aid to more than 100 people per year. The clients mainly people with housing problems or homeless people whom without our work could not enforce their basic rights.

Poverty is a main global issue in “rich countries” also, so the association is dealing with not just strategic cases, but try to give an access to everyone to the justice. They run many project specially about education, protect homeless people’s right and supervise discriminating petty offenses regulations in the country.

To enforce the 3rd generation of human rights in Hungary – social issues, regarding to poverty – is the main project of the association, try to give an access to everyone to the law and justice, and find the cases also where strategic litigation could be aimed for a better world.