UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urges the Hungarian government to revoke constitutional amendments that have been widely criticised by international and regional human rights bodies as representing a backward step in human rights protection and undermining constitutional justice. The High Commissioner ‘s call to the Hungarian government came after the Venice Commission released a report expressing concern that the new constitution does not afford enough protection for fundamental human rights. The report stated that the constitutional amendment “perpetuates problems of the independence of the judiciary, seriously undermines the possibilities of constitutional review in Hungary and endangers the constitutional system of checks…
