Ágnes Osztolykán

Ágnes Osztolykán, 2012

Ágnes Osztolykán (* 3. November 1974 in Csenger , Hungary ) is a Hungarian politician and Roma - activist . She was a member of the Hungarian Parliament from 2010 to 2014 and received the International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State in 2011 .

Life

Osztolykán studied political science at Miskolc University . After graduating in 1998, she joined the Soros Foundation (Open Society Foundations, OSF). She then headed a Roma inclusion program from 2002 to 2007 at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.

In 2009 Osztolykán joined the newly founded Lehet Más a Politika (LMP, German Politics can be different , since 2020 Greens ). After 2.6 percent of the vote in the 2009 European elections , your party received 7.44 percent of the vote in the 2010 parliamentary elections . Osztolykán won a seat on the Budapest list. In Parliament, she was Vice-Chair of the Committee on Education, Science and Research. She had to experience discrimination and sexual assault there. In January 2014, she announced that she would not run in the following elections.

Osztolykán has been advising the Ministry of Education since 2016.

Osztolykán is an activist for the rights of Roma and minorities. She is committed to the education of Roma children, their vocational training and the social integration of the Roma in Hungary. In 2011 she received the “International Women of Courage Award” from Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama . Rosa Otunbajewa , Central Asia's first female head of state in Kyrgyzstan, and the lawyer Guo Jianmei , who campaigns for women's rights in China, were also among the ten women of the year .

Osztolykán is married and has one son.

Web links

Commons : Ágnes Osztolykán  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• femina.hu: Ledöfné Osztolykán Ágnest a jobbikos képviselő - Így bánnak a nőkkel a parlamentben. (Hungarian, March 3, 2013)

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