 I get many varied questions from people outside of Hungary like what's really happening in Hungary, is it like turning to a dictatorship in the middle of the European Union, and what I can answer to those questions is not yet, so Hungary is not a dictatorship yet. The best term, how we can describe the situation in Hungary, describe the system which exists now in Hungary, is an informational autocracy. That was the best term I ever heard about this system. So autocrats of today, they don't really need open repression. They don't need tanks, they don't really need torture rooms. What they need is a very effective propaganda machine that makes people believe that they are the competent leaders of our countries, and what they also need is to restrict freedom of association, so to restrict civil society, and silence those voices that are criticizing the government. And in Hungary, my country, the attack against civil society started in 2014, when the government scapegoated those NGOs, those civil society organizations that received funding from foreign donors, and why we are scapegoated and why we are in the spotlight, because actually receiving money from international donors means that you are independent from the government. The government has no control over you, so when you are receiving money from international donors, you are free to criticize the government, and that's why we are dangerous for those with power and those with privileges. And my organization advocates for the human rights of drug users, sex workers and people living with HIV AIDS, and those organizations who receive funding from international donors, now they are required to register in a government registry. The law was adopted in 2017, and this law requires us to register as foreign funded NGOs, also to label every publication as a foreign funded NGO, and also if you violate these rules, then you will, first instance, you will pay a fine, and second instance, the court can abolish the NGO. And apart from this legislation, the government is pursuing a kind of hate propaganda in the Hungarian media against NGOs, especially funded by Joe Chorosh. Maybe some of you have seen pictures of how Joe Chorosh was highlighted in big billboard campaigns all over Hungary as the enemy of the Hungarian people, and he was made a kind of public enemy number one in Hungary, so the government spent huge money from public resources to advertise or campaign against Joe Chorosh and us NGOs who are supported by him, and the latest round of kind of legislative reforms of the government was the so-called stop Chorosh law, which was adopted this year. Very cynically, this law was adopted on the International Refugee Day, and this law actually criminalizes helping to refugees and migrants, and criminalizes those NGOs who are helping migrants and refugees. There is a huge xenophobia campaign against migrants and refugees in my country, which is of course not really because we have so big problems of migration because the number of refugees and migrants coming to Hungary is very small, but still it's used for fear mongering in Hungary, and how it affects our work in the field of harm reduction and HIV prevention in Hungary, so my government adopted a very repressive national drug strategy in 2013, and this drug strategy aims to make Hungary drug free, and it condemns harm reduction actually, or it does not support harm reduction, and consequently the budget for all harm reduction programs was cut, and there were some political attacks against needle and syringe programs especially. In Budapest there were six needle and syringe programs funded by the national government, and in 2014 the government ruling party organized demonstrations against the needle exchange programs, and they claimed that the needle and syringe programs are responsible for attracting drug users to the neighborhood, and they forced the two largest needle and syringe programs to close down, so these two largest programs distributed 55% of clean needles in the country. After closing them down, the access to clean needles is extremely low, so it's less than 30 needles per year per injecting drug users, which is much lower than recommended by international organizations. Now these laws and these interventions also have a chilling effect on civil society, so those NGOs who receive funding from international donors, they have difficulty to cooperate with any kind of local authorities or institutions, so everybody is afraid to build any kind of partnership with those NGOs, so apart from the legal consequences we have this chilling effect, and that's also affecting the lives of people doing HIV. I always used to say that it's not the activists who are really in danger in Hungary, but those people we represent because most of the activists they speak foreign languages, they can move from the country if they really need to, but those people we represent, they don't have any opportunity to live, they will be imprisoned, criminalized, the drug laws were restricted in Hungary, so now more people are going to prison because of a simple procession of drugs. Maybe something about what works and what does not work in advocacy in this repressive environment. So there are a few NGOs who resist to this new law, the anti-Shorosloh and anti-NGO law, my NGO with eight other NGOs we refuse to register as foreign agents in this registry, and we challenge this law at the Constitutional Court and also at the European Human Rights Court, so we have the benefit of being a member of the European Union, and we can use some of the mechanisms this provides, and we use all these channels we can use in legal channels to challenge this law, and also we organize mass media campaigns and we organize mass demonstrations against these laws, civil society organizations keep together now. So apart from this chilling effect, actually, this current situation also had this effect or consequence that some of the NGOs are now cooperating better. Those NGOs who are the victims of this repression, now they come together and they organize, there are much more cooperation in civil society than it was before, so it's kind of unintended consequence of this law, and I also think that in this repression when you work in this kind of environment, when you are scapegoated, when you are made a public enemy, you have to reduce your ambition, so I think we have to be less ambitious with our goals, so we should proceed with small steps and also kind of protect those as one Hungarian philosopher, István Bivó said, small circles of liberty exist in society, and we have to protect those small circles of liberty, which is actually civil society itself, and we should be less ambitious with the goals, and also I think it's important to change the way how we are thinking and we are perceiving advocacy, so the traditional way of advocacy in developed democracies is that you present the evidence and you present the facts to the decision makers and then you expect that the decision makers will act accordingly according to the evidence, but what we see is that this doesn't work anymore, and I think it's also kind of, it's something which was missed by civil society before that we have to work much more on talking to the men on the street, we have to convince people on the street, we have to address their prejudices, we have to be very less complex in our communication, we have to keep it simple messages and reach out to people, and now what is on our advantage is that all NGOs can be their own media, my NGO for example specialized on producing online videos, and these online videos can reach out many people through social media and can have a powerful effect. What's also important here is we have to highlight human stories instead of just presenting the facts on the evidence, because I think story telling is much more effective in our advocacy. Just to conclude, because I have very limited time, I think it's also important to note, because I feel at this conference that many of us, many of our activists now feel a bit depressed and they are like losing face in what they are doing, questioning the meaning of the work what they are doing, but it's also important to note that why we are under attack and why we are scapegoated by these illiberal autocrats is because we did something good, because we are really dangerous for those with power and those with privileges, we are really threatening their privileges, so we are doing something good and I think it's important to keep that in mind when we are doing our everyday work, that we are exactly now in the spotlight because we are doing something good and we should not stop that. We should have always improved what we are doing, but we should not stop that and it's also a message to international donors of course that please don't retreat, but please support NGOs and activists, community activists who are working in these environments. Thank you very much for your attention.