Budapest at the edge of an HIV explosion?
Harm reduction centres in Budapest are running out of supplies, posing the threat of an HIV epidemic.
Author: István Gábor Takács
István Gábor Takács is a human rights activist, videographer and trainer. He ran the Video Advocacy Program of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union between 2007-2015. He worked as a needle exchange program counselor for 5 years. He is author of several articles on harm reduction and cameraman, editor, director and co-director of more than 700 online videos, among them longer documentaries, such as “Kostya Proletarsky” (2020), “Taking Back What’s Ours: An Oral History of the Movement of People who Use Drugs” (2020) ”A Day in the Life: The World of Humans Who Use Drugs” (2016), “Without Rights” (2009), “Without a Chance” (2014), “Room in the 8th District” (2014) and “The Invisible” (2011). Since 2016 he works at the Rights Reporter Foundation, where besides producing films, he is training activists in video advocacy.
A Slovakian MP has scattered needles on a fellow MP’s head
Leader of the Slovakian Simple People and Free Personalities Party, Igor Matovic, poured a box of syringes used for injecting heroin over the head of Martin Poliačik, a fellow MP.
Free Pussy Riot
Watch our movie on Pussy Riot, a Russian punk band whose members face up to three years of imprisonment – and take action now!
HCLU wins two first prizes in the 2012 Web Video Contest of Kreatív Magazin
Our video “The Human Rights Costs of the War on Drugs” has won first prize for best online video series. Our Hungarian language animated promotional video won first prize in the ‘PR video’ category
5 days of HCLU Video Advocacy Training successfully finished!
14 harm reduction and drug policy activists were trained in Budapest by the HCLU. We wish our partner trainees successful use of their newly acquired video advocacy skills in their struggle for human rights and humane drug policies!
Lawyering on the Margins
The HCLU produced two movies about human rights lawyers who met at a meeting in Copenhagen.
HCLU Video Advocacy Training 2012 – Call for Applications
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) announces a Call for Applications to its 5 day long Video Advocacy Training to be held in Budapest on 20-26 May 2012. Application deadline is 19 March, 2012.
AIDS Action Europe: The NGO partnership on HIV and AIDS in Europe and Central Asia
The HCLU helped produce the branding video for Aids Action Europe, by using the footage provided by AAE members.
Drug, Set and Setting – Today.
Watch the exciting presentations by Julie Holland, Gabor Maté and Carl Hart held at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference 2011 in Los Angeles.
Young people from Latin America speak out against the war on drugs
This short video was created during the HCLU video advocacy training held prior to the III Latin American and I Mexican Drug Policy Conference that took place in Mexico City, 13-14 September, 2011.
