Mark your calendars (“save the date”) for the 2025 General Assembly of No Peace Without Justice ETS, which will be held in Budapest on 28 June.
The date and location were chosen by the Board of Directors after the Hungarian government introduced special regulations to ban the 30th Budapest Pride, prohibiting all demonstrations in support of sexual freedoms, and explicitly providing for the use of massive surveillance technologies, including artificial intelligence, to identify and monitor participants.
The organisers have confirmed that the 30th Budapest Pride “will take place as scheduled” on 28 June, with the explicit support of the Mayor of Budapest, opposition parties, and countless associations that have mobilised in defence of the civil rights of all Hungarians, not least the right to protest against the authoritarian policies of the Orban Government. Furthermore, there is expected to be broad participation from political leaders, activists, human rights defenders, parliamentarians, and ordinary citizens from throughout Europe and beyond.
We hope that as many of our members as possible can attend the NPWJ Assembly in Budapest in person, and then, those who wish, also take part in the Pride or many other initiatives planned for that historic day. For those who are unable to attend in person, it will also be possible to join via Zoom, with automatic translation (in the subtitles) for all interventions.
We plan to begin the Assembly (in second convocation) at 09h30, and to conclude the strictly assembly-related work by 11h30.
From 11h30 onwards, after the Assembly, we plan to hold a debate organised in collaboration with EUmans, with Hungarian and European parliamentarians, jurists, and activists discussing the necessity and urgency for the Council to decide to activate Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union for Hungary in response to systematic violations of the rule of law, fundamental freedoms, and the core values of the European Union.
From 14h00 onwards, the 30th Budapest Pride march is expected to start from Podmaniczky utca (at Nyugati Pályaudvar) and conclude around 20:00 in Szabadság tér (Freedom Square).
For those who have not yet renewed their membership fee for 2025 and those willing to become members, please do so (https://www.npwj.org/support-us/membership/) in the next few days, and no later than 30 days before the Assembly, i.e., by 28 May 2025.
The formal invitation from the President, the proposed Agenda, the 2024 financial statements, the 2025 budget proposal, the Annual Report, and all other assembly documents will be sent to NPWJ members once they are adopted at the next meeting of the Board of Directors.
For more information, please contact Laura Zamperetti (at lzamperetti@npwj.org).
